“You’ll heal, Maude. You’ll get better, and you’ll be useful again and not feel so helpless—” She put up a hand, stopping me. “If I was fixed on being the most useful version of myself”—she gestured at her bandages—“it would be all too easy to hate my body when it was not. I don’t. People who love you for your usefulness don’t love you at all.”
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