The things we hate this week, every week.
Little Deaths
In my life, I’ve experienced little death. Not little death as in “la petite mort,” as in orgasm. Little death as in few funerals. As in only my grandfather’s. He’s been dead since August and ashes since September. My grandmother delayed the memorial until November, when her family could fly to Oregon and grieve together.
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