that’s because in the beginning she wasn’t desired by men. In fact, she wasn’t desired at all. “But that was before you were born,” I said. “Afterward, when she held you in her arms, Mina must have felt differently.” I had a firm belief that biological love manifested itself in women the instant they’d given birth. Josée told me that it seemed to her she could remember the warm, sweet smell of her mother’s milk, the gentle bobbing as her mother switched breasts. “You have to love a baby for that,” she said. “It’s not like she had nothing else to do.”
This is so lovely a description
