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1
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Touch each others…

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hands across space

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2
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chair, sunlight, flowers…

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these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe

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3
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Colour of…

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blood which defines us

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4
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hunger to…

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commit the act of touch

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5
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a non…

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  • descript woman
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6
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to be seen…

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is to be penetrated

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7
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smile of blood…

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fixes the attention

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8
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night is mine…

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my own time

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9
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you can…

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mean thousands

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10
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she has…

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become speechless

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11
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it pleases me…

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to think I’m communing with her

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12
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he calls me…

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honey, we are all honey

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13
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I used to think of…

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my body as an instrument of pleasure…or an implement for the accomplishment of my will

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14
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I keep the knowledge…

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of this name like something hidden

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15
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it is an…

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incendiary object

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16
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this is supposed to…

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signify that we are one flesh

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17
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nor does…

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rape cover it: nothing is going on here that I didn’t sign up for

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18
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I wonder what…

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has become of the other two cushions

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19
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what’s your…

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real name

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20
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Moira had power now…

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she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose

21
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we are…

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for breeding purposes

22
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the letter c….

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crisp, slightly acid on the tongue

23
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to him I…

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am not merely empty

24
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a rat in a maze…

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is free to go anywhere as long as it stays inside the maze

25
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each one…

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remains unique

26
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danger…

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is greyout

27
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love is…

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not the point

28
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God is love…

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they said once, but we reversed that

29
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I’m alive…

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in my skin again, arms around him

30
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I tell…

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therefore, you are

31
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I tell him…

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my real name and feel that therefore I am known’

32
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I am…

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I am, I am

33
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Into the darkness…

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within, or else the light

34
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only women who…

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are fruitful and women who are barren

35
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regular…

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two - four marching stroke

36
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The Marthas…

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are not supposed to fraternize with us

37
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you can’t make…

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an omelette without breaking eggs

38
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The truth is

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that she is my spy, as I am hers.

39
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“we still had

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our bodies. That was our fantasy”

40
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palimpsest

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…

41
Q

as once

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in nunneries’

42
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business

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transaction

43
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it will

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become ordinary

44
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there’s always someone else

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even when there is no one’

45
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I want to be held and

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told my name. I want to be valued’

46
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toneless

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metallic voices’

47
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the fall was a fall

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from innocence to knowledge’

48
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there is something powerful

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in the whispering of obscenities

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