Identity

At a recent signing, a member of the audience asked why romance heroines were always under the age of forty.  Author Sherry Thomas said that in years past they used to be even younger, usually in their teens or early twenties, so they could be believable virgins.  Jax Gaffen added that a sociological study had found that most older women still identify with their younger selves.

All of which got Fiorella thinking about her own experience with self-identification. As an adult, she still identifies with herself as a child, but as child, she often identified with herself as an adult. From fourth grade on, all of her daydreams involved romances--very adult situations.