The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one message or notification that would improve your entire life

Chuck the gadgets in the garbage, throw away the constant availability, the heightened stress of being always in the know

Somewhere down the line, it got hard to just be kind, and I don‘t know why, and I don‘t know when, and when I see all of the reasons to be back in love with her again, I want more than anything to be swept up in the tide of before

“To difficult women, who should be celebrated for their very nature”

“People still had the capacity to save themselves from total and irreperable dissociation”

“Shove off the shackles of psychosomatic loneliness”

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