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PINK LADY
I was made for him.
It is morning, which is to say, it is the beginning of all things. It is bright
and it is sharp and it is perfect and so is Eve, who wakes alone to this
singular thought, as she does every morning; to this honeyed, liquid thought
and sunlight and sparrowsong and the softness of green shadows in a house
that has always been hers and hers alone. Her husband spoils her and she is
grateful.
Eve runs her hand over the place beside her where her husband sleeps
every night and thinks it again, with as much joy:
I was made for him.