Belle can sometimes get very down when tom does not text her a big X at the end of the message but just a small one, even though when you type a full stop, the big one comes automatically and so he's gone to the trouble to replace the capital letter with a small one - we say to each other, "There's a drowned butterfly inside me". Then we simply nod, knowing exactly how the other feels.
From The discomfort of evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
From The discomfort of evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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