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‘“You're pining for a daddy you never knew.”’

‘I stood before the mirror, removing then re-wearing it, no longer recognizing the girl I saw: a stranger in a stranger’s coat, older than I could ever be. I didn’t understand then that it would be this way forever—I would always be losing my own face.’

‘I pictured the air sliding through her clean pink lungs and into her brain—oh, the size of her brain—and wanted to cry at the delicate ecosystem of her aliveness. Each exhale felt to me like a miracle.’

‘There, the girl in the mirror ceased to exist, and I felt she was more real than me.
Those were lonely but not unhappy hours. There was a certain pleasure in challenging the girl in the mirror to stay still. But something had changed between then and now—a capacity for imagination had been lost. In my reflection, I saw only myself.’

'I looked into her round green eyes and felt something shift from deep inside me, a desire to pick her up and put her in my mouth, not to eat but to keep safe.' cuteness aggression babes