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“The love I’ve felt for you is the most exquisite kind of love there is,”
“It’s easier to say that women like my mother are crazy. Then you don’t have to listen to them. And so maybe in a way she became crazy. Maybe she could communicate only by screaming.”
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
That afternoon with Lola, I felt things I’d never felt before, her skin touching mine when I was so rarely touched, her body warming mine when for so long I had been cold. I felt happy and fulfilled, and I wondered for the first time whether the torment that was seeded so deeply inside me could be quelled.
