“I know,” I said. “I stole it from the set of Father and Daughter. But don’t tell anyone.” “I hope you know by now that all of your secrets are safe with me,” Celia said as she started unbuttoning it to put it on. I think for her it was a throwaway line. But it meant a lot to me. Not because she said it, I suppose. But because when she said it, I realized I believed her. “I do,” I said. “I do know that.” People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare
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