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Rae Armantrout, "Set Theory"

"Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honoured by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

somewhere, in a better universe, little kid jude is getting measured by harold in their living room at Cambridge and harold is telling what a big boy he’s becoming

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