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It's so physically grueling!! I really deeply felt solidarity with babies after having to get 4 shots in one visit, my god. Your body is so sore and your brain is going wild from all the stress on your immune system! Like obviously you don't remember the physical experience from being a baby, and so going through it as an adult really leaves you with the impression of how much is being done by and in your body to give you immunity, it's incredible. What a genuine miracle!

I always forget how batshit the street names are until I see them in writing like this:

On the corner of Indulgence and Religion, in the Lower Garden District, there is a violently pretty spot. It was Claude’s parents’ house.

Which I'm nearly positive is not a real intersection (although there is a Religious street in that area lmao. But also this might have been true pre-Katrina, who knows) but it immediately made me remember Piety, a street that runs parallel to Desire and also intersects with Pleasure