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this poor, poor woman

so incredibly well written

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose.”

holy shit

“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she’d had any pain … I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn’t groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been”

love the way this is written it’s so engaging