Best Advice

In our continuing series of responses from our authors on the best advice they were ever given on matters that were key for them, we’re pleased to offer some advice that is difficult and candid, from writer Tina Nettesheim:

When you’re alone and nineteen and it’s winter in Boston and everyone you love is in Southern California and a gangly intern at the clinic tells you you’re pregnant, you walk. You don’t notice where you’re going because your mind is on fire, saying everything you know to be true.