Ames had thought a fair amount about this. “I don’t think she appreciates queerness so much as she came to feel ambivalent about heterosexuality. I know those two aren’t the same thing. She’s attracted to masculine bodies, of that I’m sure.” He flicks his wrist in a semi-ironic indication of his own now-curve-depleted body as evidence. “Although perhaps not men as a class. A lot of what she liked about me, she says, is how different I am from the other men she’s dated. I think what she might be attracted to is my gender, the traces of queerness about me—with me she gets queerness without ever
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