“I’ll tell you what I mean. Years ago I read an article and the title was ‘Love Is Love,’ and in it the writer said that when she was in college and had her first boyfriend and was desperately in love with him, her great-aunt, recently widowed, came to stay at her parents’ house, and the writer remembered standing in the bedroom with this tiny old woman who was frightened and had terrible breath and realizing: I love her the same way that I love my boyfriend! She didn’t want to go to bed with this old woman, but the love she felt for her was distinctly related, of the very same cloth. And I’ve
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