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3 years, 10 months ago

for the very first time grateful to be alive

[...] It goes on for a long while and she loses her self-consciousness not completely but enough to enjoy sex for the first real time ever. She cannot believe how good it feels, how much even as she is losing herself in the moment she is concurrently feeling every inch of her soul waking up and smi…

—p.99 Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
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it’s as though she has been a sleeping beauty

Lina has lived an entire lifetime between her first kiss with Aidan and this kiss with Aidan. She has gotten married and had two children and more than one golden retriever has died and she has peeled four thousand garlic cloves. But the whole time it’s as though she has been a sleeping beauty in b…

—p.96 by Lisa Taddeo
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Ed with his scientific face rejects her topic/heartbreak

Then one night Ed with his scientific face rejects her for the hundredth time and she looks at her calendar and she sees that the last time they had sex was about a month and a half prior. Forty days of nothing, not kissing or touching. If it had been near Lent she might have hoped it was a quiet C…

—p.92 by Lisa Taddeo
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3 years, 10 months ago

predict the day the woman decides to leave

Everyone thinks, you lose weight, you are going to have a ton of sex. Yes, the trainer said, your sex drive spikes. But there’s something else that happens that’s basically the inverse. It’s almost an epidemic.

He said he can see it coming immediately. For the women especially. They lose all thi…

—p.91 by Lisa Taddeo
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the engagement came easily

Later that night, after the cookout, Lina and Ed were lying on the living room floor, talking. Everyone else was asleep around the house or in tents outside. After a bit, she pretended to be asleep because she didn’t want to do anything with him. He bent over and said, Good night, and kissed her fo…

—p.88 by Lisa Taddeo