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I don't need you to be here, Jude would tell me in time, but I want you to be. And that's how it should be. It's better that way. Love, he would tell me, is all about choice. Free will. Need is about dependency.
Jude thought we should be like a gift to each other, but I longed to be essential. That was love, I decided, as our intimacy changed and deepened over the course of the year. Not being able to do without. Waiting -- that was just desire, fluid and changeable as the tide. Need was real l
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― Thirst for Salt
― Thirst for Salt
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You're just different from the other boys I've brought home.
Different in what way?
Well, you're not exactly a boy.
I'm old, you mean?
No, not old. But you're, you know, a man.
I hate that there've been others, said Jude, and I was so surprised at the fact of his jealousy that I apologized. Why would he be jealous, I thought, when I had never loved or been loved this way before?
It wasn't like this, I said. It wasn't ever like this.
Tell me that you've never had anyone else. I want you to
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― Thirst for Salt
― Thirst for Salt
