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In the desert there is no sign that says

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thou shalt not eat stones

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think of it as being in

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the army

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A chair

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a table, a lamp

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Thinking can

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hurt your chances and I intend to last

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the circumstances have been reduced

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for those of us that still have circumstances

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She didn’t step aside… There is push

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and shove, these days, over such toeholds

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I know you aren’t

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stupid

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She did this decisively,

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one jab and one grind

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He begins to whistle.

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Then he winks.

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The truth is that she is my

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spy, as I am hers

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I enjoy the power;

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the power of a dog bone, passive but there

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12
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Freedom

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to and freedom from

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She a magic presence to us,

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an object of envy and desire, we covet her

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14
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The women teeter on their

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spiked feet

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15
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The smell of nail polish has made

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me hungry

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What you must be, girls,

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is impenetrable. She called us girls.

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17
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Luke wasn’t a doctor.

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isn’t.

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Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia,

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is what you are used to

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19
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Where should I go?

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Somewhere good. Moira

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20
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Those that can believe that such stories are only stories

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have a better chance

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she presented this failure of hers

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as a sacrifice she was making for the good of all

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The knife she uses is

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sharp and bright, and tempting. I would like to have a knife like that.

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23
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He is

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violating custom

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Was he invading? Was he in my room?

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I called it mine.

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im communing with her

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this unknown woman

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26
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We lived, as usual by

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ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it

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We are all

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honey

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genuine, genuine

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sympathy; and yet he is enjoying this

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29
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I am a nat

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ional resource

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30
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What I must present is a made

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thing, not something born

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31
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I wish I had a pig

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ball

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32
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its safer to make things up

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than to say you had nothing to reveal

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33
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her fault her fault her fault

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we chant in unison… we meant it, which is the bad part

-reflect mass hysteria of salem witch trials ‘safer to make something up than say you have nothing to reveal’

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34
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I feel ridiculously

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happy

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35
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He looks over us as if

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taking inventory

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36
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he manages to look

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puzzled, as if he cant quite remember how we all got in here

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37
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The rings of her left hand cut into my fingers.

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it may or may not be revenge

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38
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which of us is it

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worse for, her or me

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39
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sanity is a

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valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money

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40
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Pleasure is a

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egg

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41
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we grip each others hands

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we are no longer single

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42
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you wanted a womens culture

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well now there is one

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43
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Janine was like a

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puppy that had been kicked too often

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44
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(moira) she is a cunning

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and dangerous woman

45
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already we were losing

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our taste for freedom

46
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we are two legged

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wombs; that’s all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices

47
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To want is to

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have a weakness

48
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Its an

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oasis of the forbidden. I try not to stare.

49
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its as if he’s

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offered me drugs

50
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words spelt in scrabble:

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larynx
zygote
ziltch
limp

51
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it could be important

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it could be a passport, it could be my downfall

52
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so there it was out in the open:

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his wife didn’t understand him

53
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as if indulging a

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child’s wish for bubble gum

54
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It wasn’t the first time he gave evidence of being

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truly ignorant of the real conditions under which we lived

55
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steel yourself

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my mother used to say

56
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it was like being on an operating

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table, in the full glare; like being on stage

57
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she was a malicious

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and vengeful woman

58
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To him I am no longer

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merely a usable body. To him I’m not just a boat with no cargo. To him I am not merely empty

59
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a rat in a maze is

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

60
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Somehow the wall is even more

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foreboding when it’s empty like this… potential like a storm approaching

61
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hope is rising in me,

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like sap in a tree. Blood in a wound

62
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I want to laugh,

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shout, hug her (ofglen)

63
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Pen

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is envy

64
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If my life is bearable

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maybe what their doing is right after all

65
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what I have on him is

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guilt. At last

66
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I sit in my chair, the wreath on the ceiling

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floating above my head, a floating halo, a zero

67
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its hard to be afraid of a man who is

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sitting watching you put on hand lotion. This lack of fear is dangerous.

68
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you cant make an omelette

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without breaking eggs

69
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better never means

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better for everyone

70
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GOD IS A

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NATIONAL RESOURCE

71
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All we’ve done is

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return things to natures norm

72
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LOVE is not

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the point

73
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Lydia sucks

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It was like a flag waved from a hilltop in rebellion

74
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we were falling

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women

75
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Time has not stood still.

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It has washed over me, washed me away as if I am nothing more than a women of sand

76
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so now that we don’t have different clothes

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you merely have different women

77
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I want gallantry from her, swash buckling,

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heroism, single handed combat. Something I lack.

78
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He is not a

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monster

79
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I don’t want to be

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a wingless angel… They can do what they want with me. I am abject. I feel for the first time, their true power

80
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Faith is only

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a word embroidered

81
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And so I step up,

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into the darkness within; or else the light

82
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I still have it in me to feel sorry for him. Moira is right.

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I am a wimp

83
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she’s frightening me now, because what

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I hear in her voice is indifference, a lack of violation

84
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our job is not to censure

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but to understand

85
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there was little that was truly original with or indigenous to Gilead:

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its genius was synthesis

86
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these days we’re

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so well behaved (few womens salvaging’s needed)

87
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how easy it is to

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invent a humanity

-Offred is compared to a mistress of a Nazi camp commandant

88
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just another crummy

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power trip

89
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our big mistake was teaching them how to read

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we wont do that again

90
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elbows

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on the table

91
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im communing with her

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this unknown woman

92
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spiked

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feet… twittering

93
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the bitch

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not to tell me, or bring me news, any news at all

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ravenous

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for news

95
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strung up like a Christmas

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turkey

96
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she died that

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I might live

97
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truly amazing what people

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can get used to if given a few compensations

98
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man is just womens strategy

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for making other women- exetremist

99
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Don’t you know how many…

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womens bodies the tanks had to roll over to get that

100
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a circle of red women… a low

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sound like growling

101
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sisters

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dipped in blood

102
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they can

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hit us- scriptural precedent Exodus 21

103
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womens bodies

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turning to black ash -implies any extreme is dangerous?

104
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the birthing stool with its double seat… the smell is of

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our own flesh, an organic smell

105
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The young ones are often the

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most dangerous… the jumpiest with their guns

-allusion to Hitler youth in Nazi Germany

106
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Being with him is safety;

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a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion of course.

107
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whispers less,

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talks more about the weather… what I feel is relief

108
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Moira was our

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fantasy

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