Valerie Frankel is the author of fourteen novels, including The Accidental Virgin, The Girlfriend Curse, I Take This Man. Her new memoir is Thin Is the New Happy. She writes for many national magazines and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
Excerpt: Ouch, You're Lying On My Hair
by Valerie Frankel
My husband, Steve, and I tend to conduct ourselves with a certain abandon that makes us forget where the edge of the bed is or that a shower curtain isn’t weight bearing. Neither of us intends to harm the other, or ourselves. We’re not into bondage or S&M. If, during a position change, my elbow happens to fly into his nose, the POW! is an accident of passion. And I feel worse about it than he does. You wouldn’t know it from the tittering, but really I do.
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