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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
Aimee Bender
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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I admired that stride it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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Light is good company, when alone I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
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