“The night you were born, the doctor had to come here because it was the middle of the night and the hospital was so far away. He handed you to me and you didn’t know what love was yet. You were the most selfish thing that ever was,” Daphne added, “claiming every inch of love your new family could scrape together, demanding it all for yourself without giving any back at all. You came into the world on a wave of pain and exhaustion and that was just the beginning. All you knew then was needing and wanting and getting. There’s nothing so pure as a yawning pit of need, and that’s the kind of
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