The Devil, and Bobby, and Me

The true story of how I lost my virginity & became a hand-me-down girl.

From a Distance & The Way They Left It, acrylics on paper by Emilie Mitcham, 2013.

The summer I turned fourteen, my family moved from a deeply Catholic, hippie commune in rural Kentucky, to Brooklyn, New York. Goodbye forested hills, night-time frog noises, all the friends I had ever known, muddy pond-water filled with tiny tadpoles, and twelve kittens that had been born that…