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I kissed her back, with more heat to it than I intended, remembering how it felt to first lay eyes on her, the impossibility of her beauty, the magnetic field surrounding her. And now I was kissing her.

We were bright and young and brilliant, alive with glittering promise, and yet we went to such extreme lengths to keep ourselves small

Why wouldn’t my mother do anything to protect me, the way mothers in stories always did?

‘Mum,’ I pleaded, just a girl, just a little girl at the heart of myself.