“It just goes to show ya. It’s always something. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.”

Coco Densmore
9 min readNov 16, 2022
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August 1, 2022

Turns out the fellow I’m dating, Don, I really do not think he has herpes. He has this skin condition at the base of his spine that showed up around the same time his ex-wife told him he’d given her herpes, so he just believed her, and has actively owned his herpes shame for six years. Spending that…

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Coco Densmore

Coco Densmore writes about Embracing Her Single, being HSV-2+, living with bipolar mental illness, and overcoming childhood sexual abuse. www.cocodensmore.com.