我从来没有在妈妈和我住的特纳弗兰那间小公寓以外的任何地方生活过。但是,今年夏天,在我即将13岁的时候,却要去北方露茜姨妈家住一段时间。妈妈要跟一个叫约翰的男人去佛罗里达。她对我说,这是她很久以来第一次觉得很重要的一个男人。她准备离开家的那天,我们平生第一次刮掉了腿上的汗毛一我们坐在浴盆的边沿,两个人同时把身子弯到膝盖上,专注而又小心翼翼地在腿肚子上活动着剃刀 I’ve never lived anywhere outside my mom and my tiny Tennafranca apartment. However, this summer, when I was about 13, I was going to spend some time with my Auntie Lucy in the North. Mom wants to go to Florida with a man named John. She told me that this was the first man she had felt so important for a long time. On the day she was ready to leave home, the first time in my life she had shaved the hairs on my legs. We were sitting on the edge of the tub, and both bent over to our knees, focused and carefully moving our razors