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- if her sense of independence, freedom, identity can be found only is resisting help, in letting no one take care of her. If the inverse might offer strength too.

That there is an end to pain-it’s an idea, rather than a belief but it’s tied to that night with Aleksandr, the sense of falling headfirst into herself.

(6:35 a.m.) are you at the office?

(6:35 a.m.) Yes, I do occasionally work, sweetheart.

(6:35 a.m.) and here I thought white men got everything handed to them.

(6:36 a.m.) I, too, am disappointed.

“I could be your hobby,” she volunteers, running her hands up his arms.

“That would imply you offer more stress relief than you incur,” Aleksandr counters.

“I think he’s going to just stand there until you go,” Lili stage-whispers to Aleksandr.

“The stray child is correct,” Michael says.

“Intellectual consistency is important!”

“Soundness of thought, yes, but you don’t need to subscribe to one ideology for that.”

"And that's both the appeal and danger of Marxism, how it offers what religion once did. There's an absolutism to it—answers to all your ques-tions, direction for the rage, purpose to your suffering…”

She frowns. “You can’t just pick and choose what you agree with from different thinkers.”

Aleksandr raises an eye brow. “That’s the entire point of thought. Otherwise, it’s just blind ideology.”

That it—she—might be more than the hurt; that there's more to her than protecting the bruise she tries to hide at the center of herself-that her grief might not swallow her, if she dares to touch it.

Like she reached the edge of something. Like something finally caught up to her.