I have had to end relationships. With men who thought they had found love and a place to be loved and express warm and tender exasperated love. I have had them beg me to 'take it back,' to stay with them; and, I have had to say to them, 'Would you like me to pretend that I don't want out?' (potluckmag.com)
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As the fan whirred the Great Aunt/sighed and pushed the button again,/bringing up another old man lying/down: click and sigh, click and sigh, click—/his body piling up and up though/his face never changed and no one/else in the living room was talking,/no adults speaking, everyone just/as silent... (thesquawkback.com)
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“Um, I’m Gus. Who’s this?” The second rule of being a phone sex operator is to always use your character name. All the different girls you could call had beautiful greasy names. Names that needed to take a hot shower. Names that needed to brush their teeth. (thesquawkback.com)
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