Toothpick House
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“I guess it was my old house that was carried off by the tides. Toothpick house is yours too. You’re what it needed all along.”
“We’re what it needed. Two women who found with each other what they want. And part of what we wanted was a home. We’re rebuilding it around us.”
Annie felt she ought to seal the important things they were saying somehow. Shyly, she put her arms around Victoria. Their bodies touched full length. As they kissed Annie drew as much of herself as she could summon into her lips and gave it all to Victoria, while Victoria poured as much of herself back into Annie. They felt so open to each other they ached and the flow from one to the other went on even as they moved apart. When they turned back toward their house, the moon sat directly on top of it, like a big pot of glue.
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