"He was wounded. I suppose some sharp thing in me wanted to sting him, for making me need him now. After he'd once cut me to the edge of what a soul will bear. But that was senseless.... I looked at this grown-up Loyd and tried to make sense of him, seeing clearly that he was too sweet to survive around me. I would go to my grave expecting the weapon in the empty hand."
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Essayists from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPoliticians from MarylandNovelists from Maryland
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Codi Noline, Animal Dreams.
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