little by little.
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Michael Rabinavitch was full of a deep and disturbing desire. The undoing of himself in the pedes room was the begrudged awakening of this revelation. Loneliness riddled his insides like a parasitic virus. He could name a few more deadly than his own desire, but he knew it would just be a distraction.
He didn't know it was a desire, a longing, until he was promising himself a sabbatical. He could promise himself to find God on the road, God or something like it. He promised himself to untangle the web of desire that sat so heavy in his gut that he often looked up gastrointestinal disorders that explained his pains (“Hey Siri, what're the symptoms of Hirschsprung's disease?”)
Except instead of a medical translation for his suffering, he only had a name: Dennis Whittaker.
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- Part 1 of little by little.
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He lowered his head and a chill soon followed. They say the nervous system reacts to moments of fear or harmful moments with fight or flight, but Emma knew from her therapist that there were two more that's often forgotten: freeze or fawn. Even after three years of therapy and learning how to create boundaries, placed in a city where she knew no one and knew nothing of the culture, she knew she'd fawn.
“I just want to make sure you're okay.” She found herself reaching out to touch his shoulder, but stopping herself to straighten back up. She’d learn her lesson about touching people without warning, or consent.
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- Part 2 of little by little.