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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. that's what happened with your girlfriend, paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

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You Were At The Age Where You

Junot Diaz

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. that's what happened with your girlfriend, paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

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My girlfriend is named lynn. she spells her name "lynn". my old girlfriend's name is lyn, too, but she spells it "lyn". every now and then i screw up, i call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because i don't say "n" as long.

Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. at first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. out of my heart a bird flew skywards. and it waxed larger as it flew. yet it left not my heart.

And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. a few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. and every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

Love her, love her, love her! if she favours you, love her. if she wounds you, love her. if she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. she grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

Eventually she came. she appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. after that, i couldn't think about anything else. the mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. the way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. her eyes, deep as a promise. her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. i nearly went crazy.

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