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“Maybe this was the way it was meant to be,” she whispered, lazily and sweetly. I held her longer than I had ever before held a woman in my arms. I felt her heartbeat against my chest. That peculiar and unfamiliar feeling of being bound to another human being in a way that breaks down all barriers and intimate territories. We made love with the energy of first-timers, and the sloppiness, too. She laughed when I tried to hold her in a way that made her leg cramp; and I began laughing when she took me inside her, not from silliness, but from a joy I hadn’t even known could exist between two people, between a man and a woman in a secret of love that had been protected over several years. It was as if I had unlocked doors within me.
The Hour Before Dark
Douglas Clegg
Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
A new song comes upon us moodily and yet it’s not a sad thing. It’s thicker. It’s a feeling of abandon, like the ragged chaos of the last day of school, the building nearly emptied out, the derelict textbooks flapping open, the rooms empty, the locker doors flung wide, the smell of firecrackers and menace.
The End of Everything
Megan Abbott
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