{"id":30499,"date":"2020-07-06T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=30499"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:08:57","slug":"lily-dear-younger-queer-self-contest-finalist-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/lily-dear-younger-queer-self-contest-finalist-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily – “Dear Younger Queer Self” Contest Finalist Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey girl. First off, slow the fuck down on the partying! You don\u2019t need to do all your living before you hit 20! <\/span><\/p>\n

\"pride\"<\/p>\n

Also, I know about the cigarettes. Give them up while you still can! You\u2019ll thank me later. Now\u00a0 let\u2019s talk about you. <\/span><\/p>\n

We both know you\u2019re not one to indulge in sentimentality. Sure, you respect birthdays and anniversaries, but you have never been one for romcoms and Romance novels. So I\u2019m going to break it down for you with that candor many of your friends and acquaintances either love or hate. <\/span><\/p>\n

You are enough. Right now. Just as you are. Don\u2019t you roll those eyes at me! Trust me. I\u2018ve had enough experiences to tell you this truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember when you were a little girl growing up biracial in That tiny town? Remember how you wanted long blonde hair and big blue eyes just like all your dolls and your dearest friend? Not your crazy curls and brown eyes\u00a0 flecked with green? And your complexion, neither fair nor dark, that you couldn\u2019t except? <\/span>You were always too black for the white kids yet too white for the black kids. <\/span><\/p>\n

In your dating life, your social life and even when you were alone, you would cry because you just never fit in no matter how you tried. Someday you will be spooning in bed with a lover who will comment on how beautiful it is\u2026 She will say you\u2019re the color of her morning\u00a0 coffee and just as delicious, so creamy, sweet and perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n

And those curves? How you hated those curves. Those fucking tits busting out of every adorable Victoria\u2018s Secret chemise you tried on. Being the first girl in your class to wear a bra. Little do you know one day your ridiculously sexy English lover… oh yes, you will have one, Honey, and he makes you melt without even trying, especially with that posh London accent that still sounds so proper even in the heat of passion as he growls\u00a0 all the dirtiest things he wants to do to you? He will FaceTime you at three in the morning just because he wants to see those tits so badly and couldn\u2019t sleep for all the thoughts of you racing through his mind. Grow to love them. All your lovers will!<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re going to get into really touchy territory. Your king. Oh yeah, we are going there. I still remember the butterflies in your tummy when you watched that cheesy horror film with a scene featuring the marquee de Sade. Oh it seemed so wrong but also so very right! <\/span><\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t understand the complicated feelings you had but you knew they weren\u2019t typical, and that made you feel even more adrift. Good girls didn\u2019t want the things you wanted. One day, you will be bound, spanked and ravished by a Dom friend during a time in your lives when both of you just needed that moment. He will introduce you to the local BDSM scene, and it will be like coming home.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the most difficult subject of all? Your disability. Everyone said you\u2019d never move out of your mother\u2019s house. The kids at school gave you so much shit about it that you felt worthless and every day you got on that school bus was like entering another level of hell. <\/span><\/p>\n

Honey, you moved to the city, got married, had a family, got divorced and you lived your life! You\u2019ve achieved almost all 0f your dreams. Hell, you even had a very rewarding career writing erotica while doing the family thing. Speaking of erotica, when are you going to get back into that? You know you want to.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the aspects of you that you thought were detrimental have turned out to be enhancements. You felt so alone. How many other biracial queer blind kinky pagans could there be in this world? Thanks to the internet, there are a couple with similar stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t emphasize just how much you will grow to love yourself as is and how much those close to you will as well. Girl, you\u2019re going to go through some heartache. <\/span><\/p>\n

You will lose your faith, but you will find it again. You will lose romances and relationships, family and friends. But you are better off without them. Throughout all this, you will never lose yourself. When it\u2019s just you in bed fantasizing of assignations past and future before you drift off to sleep, or when your heart soars and\u00a0 body burns in the arms of others, you are always going to be enough. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not too much of one thing, but just enough of all the things that make you who you are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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