Natalies Outlet Quotes

I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I found myself writing to heal.

EVERY MONTH, Natali locked herself in a room at the back of the house, guarded by Auntie Encarna with the boy in one hand and a shotgun in the other. The door was locked with a thick chain and an enormous padlock. Natali was a seventh male daughter of her family, so on nights when there was a full moon she turned into a she-wolf. If we didn’t watch out for her, she’d end up hurting herself, causing scenes that would subsequently be dismissed as drunken hallucinations by all but the most sensational news outlets, before waking up under the trees with her clothes torn to shreds.

Love makes us want to share our life with one person. Share our innermost thoughts, our dreams, and aspirations. We work together to build a family and raise children. Love does all those things, but it does not keep us from wanting to sleep with other people. Ethical non-monogamy gives us an outlet for these urges with no one getting hurt.