I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
AIMEE BENDERAs a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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