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“And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs Williard’s kitchen mat.”
-p.80

Reading The Ball Jar as a woman is emotionally draining, may this kind of love never find us.