All Comments on 'Late Blooming: A Vignette'

How long can you draw this out, building the tension, and fulfilling the dream?

You have an exquisite and reflective memory!

I think this was actually your memory and not fiction. It is too real, too awkward--which is how beginning sex is.

I think you were lucky to have such a gentle first time "feel."

Please write about more firsts, including first intercourse. and, please, keep this 1st person pov and wonderful tone.

I confess that I did originally post a version of this somewhere else, autobiographically. And in fact there were follow-ups, but primarily because of requests on that site - this is my favourite and the best "stand-alone" recollection.