For a few seconds afterward I have a fine spiritual glow… and maybe it would continue that way indefinitely—how can you tell?—if it weren’t for the fact that there’s a woman beside you and then the douche bag and the water running… all those little details that make you desperately self-conscious, desperately lonely. And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap… it drives me nuts sometimes… I want to kick them out immediately… I do now and then. But that doesn’t keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There’s
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