The Language of Desire
At 19, wanting someone else is the same as wanting yourself
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7 min readMar 6, 2019
I once went to a party in a glass house. Round, overlooking the night-stretched Los Angeles hillsides like a fishbowl on a precipice. One shove too far and the whole thing would tumble, shatter, splashing its depths and creatures out into the unruly pitch-dark.