obsessed. Momo believed the human body contained a kind of hormone-releasing gland or organ. This hormone could stimulate intimate connections between people, so that people with a high concentration enjoyed social intercourse, while people with a lower concentration were more reclusive. Momo, like the twentieth-century Indian patient, felt she’d been placed on the operating table and had her hormone-producing gland plucked out at some point without her knowing it. Probably well before puberty. The scar from this gland’s removal still felt sensitive to Momo, and troubled her in a way she found
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