Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
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Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
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Like coming home in every sense.
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Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.
I haven’t done it yet.
First a horse rancher, then a dancer.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
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