Caitlin Moran

I used to fear their deaths–the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!–until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end.

I used to fear their deaths–the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!–until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end.

– Caitlin Moran –

How to Be a Woman

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