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Sexual Responsibility

Calling a live sex line, making her first time be fireworks, loving yourself

Bob Dylan, the Holy Blessed Virgin Mary, J. Pierpont Morgan

A state of grace, a change in attitude, sainthood

Clean sheets and warm wool blankets, barn swallows, music

Red hair, crimson toenails, a man’s chest

“The Ed Sullivan Show,” 50,000 tons of dynamite, the word hope

Anna Karenina, the Peace Corps, long-distance rates

From suicide; to prison; into the boards

Miss Valentine’s School of Social Dance, jitterbugging in Calcutta, the “big girl’s ward” in the crippled children’s hospital

Hitting your sister, watching the rice boil, jumping over the subway turnstiles

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