My Favorite Terrible Thing

by Madeleine Henry

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Should be poured

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Should Be poured

You can never demand uncomfortable answers, not when someone is this fragile. It would be like peeling a bud, expecting a flower. The most you can do is lead someone to a sensitive subject and hope they’ll explain. Hope they’ll give their account of what happened.

It feels like wind through peace,

she had more food sensitivities, all probably invented to disguise her general fear of eating.