Yesss this was my sister’s I bet

That one totally works as a stand-alone story!

Aw I loved the Pern books too, I actually pulled some off my childhood bookshelf at my parents’ house just yesterday and started reading them!! Still pretty good. I guess I’ll pick that for my high school self but my first thought was for my elementary school self, which was Chronicles of Narnia! An all-time great

“Sex trades on the thrill of discovering, over and over again, that we are unknown to ourselves. What makes for adventure is not only the novelty of the other, although that helps, but the otherness of the self.” -Esther Perel quoting Virginia Goldner in The State of Affairs