Fear

Dear Middy: Because I love lists:

Five things I have feared since childhood

1. Pregnancy
2. Certain large insects
3. Recovering repressed memories
4. Death (mine)
5. Balloons popping

Five (additional) things I have feared since adulthood

1. Coming home to discover a suicide
2. Pictures of outer space
3. Walking along/near the subway platform edge
4. Millipedes and centipedes
5. Death (others')