At several of the book club discussions I’ve attended over the year about my first novel, many women have asked me why I didn’t write the sex scene between Michael and Annabelle when they first became intimate. I have two answers for you: 1—My parents would read it. I’m not sure how I’d feel discussing that particular scene at a family gathering… and, 2—I believe much can be left up to the imagination of the reader. It is difficult, I think, to write something that is so intimate, and at times magical, as a moment where sex is not just sex, but rather a sort of spiritual melding of two…