Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and LongingAuthor recounts her struggle to reconcile her longing for same-sex companionship with her Southern Baptist upbringing as a teenager in rural East Texas in the mid-20th century. |
Contents
Section 1 | 5 |
Section 2 | 13 |
Section 3 | 16 |
Section 4 | 32 |
Section 5 | 52 |
Section 6 | 79 |
Section 7 | 92 |
Section 8 | 110 |
Section 9 | 167 |
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