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The world is slowly being consumed by the plague and the author of the short story is reminiscing on other people she had sex with

The last girl she had sex with seem to be a really special relationship, but then this girl appeared to die in the author, isolated herself on an island because there is some virus. I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean.

The author shares multiple short paragraphs about all the people she had sex with male or female. The descriptions are short, sweet, and right to the point, staring facts over emotions.

The wife in the book had her husband take her ribbon off because her husband was not evil and gave her everything she wanted love and an amazing son when the husband took the ribbon off, her head fell off and she “felt as lonely as I ever been”

The wife had a ribbon on her neck, the artist had a ribbon around her ankle, and another mother had a ribbon around her finger. What do these ribbons represent? Why are they hiding something? What is the secret?

The ghost of the woman she killed, comes into her room that night and asks who has my liver? The old woman points to her husband, but the ghost knows it’s her and cuts her as well, taking her liver and killing her.

The daughter stays in Parris forever looking for her mother and the mother is dead, but she does not know it. She won’t know it until she herself is also dead, assuming that you believe in paradise. What is the moral of this story?

A girl and her mother go to Paris. The mother gets very sick and is seen by a doctor. The doctor sends the daughter off to get medication to cure the mom. But when the daughter returns back, the mom is missing. The hotel is repainted and has new furniture. all the workers say they don’t remember them. It is suspected that the mother died from a highly contagious disease to avoid panic they covered up the situation.

A story is told about a husband and a wife who get killed by a wolf pack, and their daughter gets taken in by the wolves, raised by wolves and lives, nakedly in the forest, eating meat raw. She gets pregnant and nurses wolves with her breasts, which even causes bleeding, but she does not mind.