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The Six Swans & the Silent Sister
I have a great weakness for fairy tales about girls who can’t speak.
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The Lady with the Dog
There are some scary moments, but the dog ends up fine.
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2 Case Studies on Women & Work
Our first subject grows up in a trad family.
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one hypothetical
fair warning, there's a suicide in this
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vampire women
she’s crying and he’s soothing her, telling her to take her time, tucking her in, not getting in with her, pulling the weighted blanket over her, it…
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at the cat's house
the apartment was nicer than hers, and no roommates.
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geneology
her father's first wife was a good woman from a good family.
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first love
day 40/40, can you believe it
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dreams about her
we are caring for an old man who despite our solicitude shrinks into a monstrous wrinkled baby and then winks out of existence.
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a curse word
an eldest daughter who has never cursed in front of her mother, overhears her youngest sister and mother talking in the next room: “you’re right, he’s…
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a body image story
eating/body stuff in here
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a useful face
he didn't know about his face.
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