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“I had a dream that night. A dream of transformation, a transformation that would allow me to be yours. In my head is a woman- she is like me, but with none of my faults. She has no name because she does not want my own. She is me, a shining me. It is her I would have you love if I had power over such things; I don’t even have the power to make her stay.”

“Later, over dinner, I pretended I had never told you, and I was sad. We talked about the story I was writing, this story. You wanted to know how it ended, and I said I didn’t know yet. You didn’t ask anything more. Sometimes when I’m sitting across from you I can’t even look at you, the feeling of evasion is so great.”

“I know now that I’d had some warning of it all. But my eyes were clouded with love and I couldn’t see it coming. Times she was so frustrated she ‘could have hit me’ I took as a figure of speech. But the first time her lovely grey eyes grew stoney and the length of her body grew tense beside me I felt fear lodge in my stomach.”