It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
AIMEE BENDERMy lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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