![]() not as cynical as Nevada and has a very cool premise that it actually delivers on. really good, really raw, hits extremely hard when you’re trans and have been through some of it irl. I don’t know if y’all have ever read a book that almost made you feel sick but that’s what this was for me. His wife did not possess the kind of beauty that triggered a desire that made him disgusted with himself.” I doubt he ever complimented his wife that way. When I came out of the shower, buoyed on a carpet of steam spilling into a hotel room designed in a modern style-no door, only a frosted glass divider between tiled bathroom and lush bedroom-I stood naked with my back to him, combing my hair and heard him murmur, “You’re so beautiful, I feel sick.” I looked at myself, then his reflection in the mirror and saw it was true. Once, he took me for a weekend in a fancy hotel in Portland-the Nines-where the Los Angeles Lakers were staying. We met in hotels or he came to my studio apartment after work, and his cruelty, like his love, came accidentally. ![]() He could not see past his own bafflement at his attraction to see me well enough for anything like intentional cruelty. “My first boyfriend after Sidney was a married man who fell in love with me accidentally. ![]() Four stars automatically for this quote alone: ![]()
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