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i love this book the same page contains “I think of how keenly I’ve been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men.” and also “As he benefits not at all from Mario Kaet’s affirmative action and disappears into the dark,”

was trying to put my finger on what the dynamics here remind me of. i think this is detransition, baby for cis people. or rather detransition, baby is this for trans people

i think edie and rebecca should have sex. it would solve nothing and make everything worse

"I find myself becoming sentimental about... the whiff of Lysol & ink, the stack of someone's homemade zines on the sink, & this very stairwell, in which I have regularly pleaded for student loan deferrals & set up pelvic exams. I have said goodbye enough times to know that departure has a way of gilding what are, at best, slow quotidian deaths, but still each time I think of everything I will lose."

“During this time, I couldn’t tell if I liked being alone, or if I only endured it because I knew I had no choice.”

edieeeeeeee. banging my head against the wall

"I stand before the mirror. I think to myself, You are a desirable woman. You are not a dozen gerbils in a skin casing."

ok im locked in