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Customers got a thrill out of seeing someone with a dozen piercings and a shaved head dressed like an old-timey train conductor,
I really do
Early thirties is not old.”
it really isn't. this is what i would tell my early thirties self.
There had been a vague shape in her imagination that included a wife, a house with a yard, maybe a dog. A modest goal, if not a dream.
She was wearing a canary-yellow sundress. In the middle of winter.
That is Nikki behavior
Last was Sawyer, who was just—some guy.
aren't they all
Mel would make sure it offered community space because a bar, in her dream world, should be more than a place to get a drink. She wanted book clubs and knitting circles and activists rotating through on a regular basis. She wanted queer people to feel like they were being catered to, not merely tolerated.
I want this place to be real.
Even admitting the existence of the divorce felt like a failure.
tagine
April taught me this word.
a force of nature with lipstick to match.
what does that even mean
She got up and grabbed a few fluffy white towels from the cabana and wrapped herself in them,
If she's as "curvy" as described, no she didn't
she’d thought marriage was as aspirational as it was inevitable.
There’s nothing more romantic than allowing your partner what they need, I think.”
It was a loss of possibility, of what could have been.
The oldest story in the world. Feelings not returned.
There’s nothing more erotic to me than bringing pleasure.”
Why bother being in a relationship when it can all blow up at any moment for any reason?”
“I can go,” Jackson said. “I love being helpful.”
I am Jackson
