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DO NOT RESUSCITATE notice signed by Merv’s ex-wife

She had taken two trains to Penn Station, got on the Red Line and transferred at Freeport for the Purple Line, then called a local cab company to take her to Merv’s beach house. When she arrived, his aide answered the door. He’s really excited to see you, she said and took Julie through the house t…

—p.63 n+1 Issue 39: Take Care Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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that she had to please everyone

Stick. Your. Tongue. Into. My. Dirty. Asshole. You. Slut.

She tried to remember if she had brought her little bottle of mouthwash. The three-hour taxi ride back to Brooklyn would not be a pleasant one without it.

Oh. Baby. I. Need. Your. Nasty. Little. Tongue.

Where did this belief come f…

—p.62 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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their mothers who had been traumatized

All men, Julie realized, blamed their problems on their mothers, and all mothers have been traumatized by men and their money—lack or surplus, it didn’t matter. Everything came down to resources and domination. Sex was just one way men could hurt others. Julie understood the physical repercussions …

—p.56 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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other people’s envy was the only salve meh/style

Merv wasn’t afraid of Julie ruining him. He had gotten to his current level of notoriety without ever being stalked, without being dragged into any kind of public dispute. The worst thing that had ever been written about him, as far as Julie could tell, was a blog post on his love life: “Hopelessly…

—p.55 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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it all became as tasteless to him as caviar meh/style

The third time they met, she let him fuck her without a condom. Just pull out and don’t come inside me, okay? He came on her stomach and then told her all the things he couldn’t express the year before at a two-day ayahuasca ceremony in a hippie port town in the Olympic Peninsula. There had been so…

—p.54 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang