[ All she remembers is what it felt like when he pressed into her. ] It felt as if you were splitting me open, [ she blurts out, and immediately regrets it because she senses the truth may hurt him. She strokes his chin. ] And women enjoy that? [ Not so much a question as a revelation. It strikes her that they must — her mother and father had eight children, and they very well might have had more if his life had not been cut so short. ]
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