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The Devastation of Things Going Exactly to Plan

A Slight Change of Plans

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The Intimacy of Being Present

"What I wanted, what I craved, what I couldn't wait to be a part of was the intimacy," she says. "There is not in my life experience comparable relationships outside of the family frame." She recalls how her brothers would sleep together on their parents' floor and breathe all over each other during hot summer days. 'I loved that we didn't ever get central air conditioning,' Kelly writes.

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