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Loved reading this book though it is chilling.

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Oct 21, 2023·edited Oct 21, 2023

Isn’t it great? I would read Truman Capote writing about anything. What a genius. And ultimately, what a compassionate person, even unto his own flaws. (See the essay collection, Music For Chameleons. I had to go to Wikipedia to remember the title. Goodness, his life is a fascinating cautionary tale. But what a writer he was, and remains!)

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Oct 21, 2023·edited Oct 21, 2023Liked by Nina Schuyler

I couldn’t follow the pattern blow for blow, but I might try again!

After a close brush with lips, followed by a sweaty, fleshy, overheated and over-extended exclamation point of thrashing about Nicole, now an innately immutable disconsolate question mark, quickly precipitates from a liquid state of flow out to her more normal position of solid despair.

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The left branching sentence coupled with the mid-branching creates such suspense. I'm reading on to find out about Nicole, and gathering clues about her along the way, guessing what has happened to her.

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After it, the exhilarating, rippling, spasmodic pleasure, the orgasm tapered itself out, turning the hot fire in her belly and thighs into a languid dullness in her thighs and back.

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not sold yet .. will be back - like a tarpon has a look.. or even bumps the bone fishing fly

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