Barbara Kerley | The Sun Magazine

Barbara Kerley

Barbara Kerley writes and teaches in Eureka, California. Her first children’s book, Songs of Papa’s Island (Houghton Mifflin), is due out this fall.

— From April 1995
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

My Breasts, Adored

When I was younger I wanted Barbie-doll boobs: lavishly large and perpetually perky. Never mind that her breasts were two cold, lifeless knobs of hard plastic. They looked good.

April 1995
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