I envied him these passions. If you had passions, you were living. Without them, you were watching––the way I was watching desert sand and half-dead creosote go by and wishing I'd stop craving attention from Charles. (Andrea Lewis (writer))

I envied him these passions. If you had passions, you were living. Without them, you were watching––the way I was watching desert sand and half-dead creosote go by and wishing I'd stop craving attention from Charles.

Andrea Lewis (writer)

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