Ever had an ut-oh moment with a teacher (in my case a professor)? We were sitting next to one another discussing a final composition I had turned in. She stopped midway and looking into my eyes said, “You could have written this in first person...”. It was an accusation to which I pled guilty. To this day I regret not following up on the silent interaction and heat that lingered between us sitting there, and I left that college for one closer to home soon after. It dawned on me many years later that I never discussed a paper or test that intimately before or after. She was really good looking and we were about the same age...but I was really ignorant about such things. I did learn, but it took a wise, older woman many years and a failed marriage later to awaken me.