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When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

Darcey Steinke

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Darcey Steinke
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 25
Author
Novelist
Oneida
New York
Woman
Ribs
Seems
Swallow
Really
Join
Men
Connect
Love
Perfectly
Like
Terrible
Becomes
Possible
Handcuffs

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