Convo

She said her favorite
song is “You Could Be
Mine” and she shuddered
a little when I showed
her a picture of me and
I don’t want this to
be a rehash of something
that was said and done
in the past, but it might
be and we have to be
prepared for that. We
have to be honest or
maybe just have to be
really good at pretending
to be honest and she
said her favorite song
majors in the art of
pretend because no one
could really be as
raunchy as the song,
not even her. She no
longer smelled like the
characters in her
stories, but instead,
compulsively bit her lips,
looking for what to
say next. “I did this
when I was fifteen”, she
says, “because this is
what came natural when
I looked at you.” She’s
madly, madly in love
with me, and we didn’t
know what to do with
this except to embrace
and embrace and embrace.
The details will come
later. For now, happiness.

— Rattle

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