I was so young and vestal then, you know it hurt me, but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive... I've got my hands bound and my head down and my eyes closed and my throat wide open".
With about 50 others, I had my hands bound behind my back by plastic ties.
And so, as the wound slashed across my belly bound itself together, my mind also began closing in… on itself.
I spent many hours of my life with my breasts bound, first by ace bandages, and later by the miracle of Spanx.
My underwear binds my ankles.
My captors bind my hands.
Another woman might have shot me dead on principle, but Y — simply printed out all the e-mails between me and all my other girls, all my bullshit seduction attempts, all the photos, had the evidence of my betrayals bound, and when I came home from one of my trips handed them to me.
What should have been clear to me from the beginning now became glaringly obvious: the marriage had been structured to keep my ex bound to his family, while making it easy to excise me after I had served my purpose.
Deer wander freely along the road or, in my case, bound across five at a time.
Our first dance was Tender by Blur, but, with all due respect to my legally bound life partner and to Damon Albarn, I remember nothing about it.
