I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel – perhaps even to know – that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways.Falling asleep I thought, ‘Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.

I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel – perhaps even to know – that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways.Falling asleep I thought, ‘Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.

– Maggie Nelson –

The Red Parts

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