Browsing: a fear of abandonment that would pop up oh so unexpectedly when I found myself separated from Mom and Dad. I had to grow up around this dark spot

       I started wandering through my childhood and adolescence, trying to figure out how I wound up creating the guy now sitting in front of his computer screen, and I quickly started digging through some of the old journal notebooks I have saved, dating back to tenth grade. In my English class that year, one of the books we were assigned to read was The Diary of Anne Frank. To say it had an impact on me is putting it mildly.