ESSAY February 2023 - The Tool of Giving Meaning to Our Painful Past - Amin A., Isfahan, Iran

In active addiction, my slogan was “Being alone in heaven is harder than being with a girl in hell.” In early childhood, I could not imagine a world without girls. I used to be ridiculed for playing with girls instead of boys. Who cared, as far as I was concerned; I enjoyed playing innocently with girls.