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her husband’s touch is a question markis this ok? can i? would you?married 20 years and he still hesitatestentative touches at the boundary of her nightgown
her massage therapist’s touch is a commapause, relax, and breathehe methodically kneads her sore back and shoulders she melts into the table
her lover’s touch is an interrobang you think you can handle this‽ who owns this body‽ begging already ‽it used to embarrass her the crassness of it allnow his firm grip on her plush thighs makes her feel alivedesired
her own touch is a semicolon you’re aging like your mother; you are still young and vitalshe rubs anti-aging serum across the roundness of her sagging curvesinventories the dashes, asterisks, and ellipses running along the spidering veins of her legs and breasts
she misses her period.