Two or Three Things That Healed for Sure

Dorothy Allison writes the novel "Two or Three Things I Know For Sure" from an autobiographical standpoint, letting the readers into very intimate, personal hardships of her life. One of the last "two or three things" that Allison admits she knows, is she wrote the brutally honest truths out of love, but leaves a bit of ambiguity in the sense that she doesn't tell us who the love is directed at. 

I, personally, interpreted the love she speaks of, as love towards herself and especially to her family. The anecdotes are not only her stories, but are the stories of her family and Allison very bluntly airs out the family's dirty laundry. I think she ends with the loving "two or three thing" because she wants to reach out to the family she "put on the spot." Writing, to many people, is a therapeutic way to heal one's self and reach out and heal relationships with people. Allison has given we, the readers, the privilege of letting us in to her own personal life and the reconciliation she makes with herself and hopefully the family from her past, and gives us a great read and a great contribution to the feminist movement.