"If it isn't love."

Sometimes your past selves are strong enough to face the people you have become

Last April I was in Providence, RI reliving my teenage years belting out the lyrics to “If It Isn’t Love” by New Edition. Two of my neighborhood friends who also grew up in the 80’s were singing alongside me. One of them was with me at my first New Edition concert over 35 years before. We were 13 and my dad sat two rows behind us watching us sing the sa…