A Collection of Misplaced Affections by Ofelia Malin is a collection of literary works written over the course of the author's adolescence. Many poems tackle sensitive subjects the author has struggled with during her formative years well up to her early twenties. Themes of first love, trust and betrayal, mortality, her existence in relation to others and being a woman in the 21st century. Somewhere between then and now I realized the way I love is the way I needed someone to love me. And in loving you I heal that part of me.