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“What a small thing she had asked for, to be left alone, to be allowed the solace of her own atoms. The only cocks she wanted inside her were the ones she requested, the only hands on her body the ones she begged to have touching her, the only knife in her gut the one she lodged there herself.”

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Book:An Unkindness of Ghosts
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Book:Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
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