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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Oleanders
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Stand
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...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
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She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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