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A day for sugar, a day when I'm sometimes seized with a terrible impatience.
When 1 wish that the sugar had already finished me off. My body would then drift
along a river of syrup, at whose mouth death would bring an end to the sticky ...
A day for sugar, a day when I'm sometimes seized with a terrible impatience.
When 1 wish that the sugar had already finished me off. My body would then drift
along a river of syrup, at whose mouth death would bring an end to the sticky ...
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I listen to sugar's lengthy progress inside me, a funereal pace that will drag on
through all the rest of my fattening-up. As a little girl, on those rare occasions
when I was allowed to sit at the table with the grown-ups, I'd close my eyes during
the ...
I listen to sugar's lengthy progress inside me, a funereal pace that will drag on
through all the rest of my fattening-up. As a little girl, on those rare occasions
when I was allowed to sit at the table with the grown-ups, I'd close my eyes during
the ...
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There's nothing like encountering the taste of sugar just as one's opening one's
eyes to dispel the weight of bad dreams. I don't dream very much, as a rule. At
least, I don't retain any precise memory of the images that flicker past in my sleep.
There's nothing like encountering the taste of sugar just as one's opening one's
eyes to dispel the weight of bad dreams. I don't dream very much, as a rule. At
least, I don't retain any precise memory of the images that flicker past in my sleep.
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