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When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
Effervescence in the soul.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.
Carelessness of truth and others.
Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
That I am not wise.
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