Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann

Author:William T. Vollmann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Short Stories (Single Author), Fiction, Romance, American, Adult, General, Short Stories, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780802134004
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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What is she to you? a cyclo driver had shouted from among the crowd that encircled him as he walked her across the street on that last morning, his fingertips gentle and careful against her back.

She's my friend, he said.

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And what was she to him? She said she loved him, and he did believe that if he asked her to marry him she would do it, come with him, bring her child (her other husband had kicked her in the face and abandoned her), and he thought that she must love him as she understood love, and he loved her as he understood love; was that enough? When he drew sketches of the Hotel 38 maids they kissed him on the lips and asked him to take them out dancing; later that day one said to him very tentatively: I love you?

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