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"You know how there are some people out there, people who.."

Her mother didn't like where this was going.

Yeva tried again. "People who like both men and women."

Her mother closed her eyes. She was trying, trying her hardest to expand her mind to fit such

— Aug 28, 2025 12:20PM

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“Nastia’s mother had once said her strangeness was what made her special. Wasn’t this a lie all children heard at some point, because all children are born strange before they learn to smooth down the edges?”

— Aug 31, 2025 09:29AM

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People don't live history, they live their lives. History is a catastrophe that passes over them.
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Off to an absolutely phenomenal start… already my favourite of the booker’s dozen (mostly because One Boat has to stay firmly at the bottom and I haven’t read the others)

— Jul 30, 2025 09:50AM

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Aug 28, 2025 12:21PM

people. There was even a word for them. She didn't understand them herself, but with time could grow to tolerate them, if these were her daughter's people. Friends, at least—her daughter had so few. In fact-here the mother's heart leapt-maybe this was actually good news. She'd gotten her daughter all wrong. Maybe, if Yeva liked both men and women, she was out there having double the sex of a normal person but felt so bad about it she didn't tell her mother—that was why she'd been so secretive. And double sex (yes, let's assume whatever it was women did together counted as sex) was still better than no sex.
Even this, she could grow to accept.

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Aug 28, 2025 04:14PM