“Reality was sweaty and ugly. It was deodorant stains on black clothing and cold sore cream and utility bills. It was fake girlfriends and formal dinners in ill-fitting suits. It was his father lecturing him in broken English about being a man. It was all of Poland, that run-down junk shop of a country, with its stray dogs and secret forests where men fucked each other in the dark and then went”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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