“it was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum. it was the keystone that held the whole cathedral up. and it was awful to learn, by having it so suddenly vanish from under me, that all my adult life i’d be privately sustained by that great, hidden, savage joy: the conviction that my whole life was balanced atop a secret that might at any moment blow it apart”
just wow, slay donna
— May 07, 2025 08:03PM
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