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A Change of Heart

A Change of Heart

Reversing a reversal or eternal return.

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Laurie Stone
May 26, 2024
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M. C. Escher

In my twenties, I thought if a man responded to me sexually it meant he liked me, and if he liked me he knew me in some way. We were naked and felt pleasure. This was a kind of knowing, a kind of sympathy. Even if I knew little about the man and little about myself, and even if we didn’t understand the sentences we exchanged after sex. Even …

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