Victorian Keepsake Album Filled With Locks Of Hair From Family Members.

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

— bell hooks All About Love - New Visions

It spoke to you so strangely, in a voice that slipped between waves of softly droning static from a television screen.

GLORIA

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‘I think I’ll be an old maid until I die. I’ll probably sit around with cats for the rest of my life. Whatever happens, I certainly won’t start to drink. But I do have what you call entrenched habits, and I’m not going to change them.’ Edith Bouvier Beale ..

im like a religious art piece. grotesque, haunting, full of melodrama and guilt and unsettlingly horny.

Coffee shop AUs are the 21st century version of the pastoralist fantasy, where the gruelling work of the lower classes is reconceptualized as a simple self-sufficient way of life where romance can blossom.