It’s cold outside, but this personal essay will warm you up. In “The LUG in Winter,” writer Sarah Hepola took a look back at her own college days, MTV’s forays, and all the girl-on-girl kissing that Britney and X-tina engaged in, before they were preggers. Things got a little hot on the message boards, as well: there was almost as much heated back-and-forth among readers, as we can imagine there was in Sarah’s dorm room bed…
Things were different when I first kissed a girl. My story is fairly typical: I was twenty years old, and drunk, and at a party, and the tale of how my friend Carolyn went from lying beside me to having her tongue inside my mouth is not the first story lost to Jack Daniel's. She and I had been cuddling and fondling each other's hair on the couch, and the kiss seemed almost a natural extension of that behavior. Later, after I sobered up, it was a little astonishing; I was a good Texas girl with childhood dreams of Johnny Depp and River Phoenix. But the most astonishing part was how good that kiss was — soft and warm and shot full with longing. Ten years later, it is still one of the best kisses I've ever had.
Cuddle up with Sarah: read the entire essay here.