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“And I think this is how I would most like to imagine romance, friends, or should I say lovers. In praise of all my body can and cannot do, I wish to figure out how it can best sing with all of yours for a moment in a room where the walls sweat. I wish to lock eyes across a dance floor from you while something our mothers sang in the kitchen plays over the speakers. I want us to find each other among the forest of writhing and make a deal.

Okay, lover. It is just us now. The only way out is through.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, “On Marathons and Tunnels,” in A Little Devil in America

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“They had been married seven months. They said nothing of any importance. They washed up the dishes and went to bed. In bed, they made love. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other’s arms, holding love, asleep.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Thank you for engaging in the mortifying ordeal of being known so that I may partake in the euphoric experience of knowing you.

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"you can't pick and choose what you like from canon" common misconception! yes you can