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“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative, I have ever met. I could live in its growing coun tries forever.”

“And then there are the many many times I have given myself to that fury and that death which is loving you, and I am, to my own knifing hurt, more faithful than is kind to my peace and my wholeness. I live in two worlds and as long as we are apart, I always shall.”

I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty…

“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.”