“He never had really been able to understand what it was that she wanted him for…although he felt certain that she wanted him for something real, that he filled some need for her, as she did for him, which could for lack of a more specific term be called love.”

Source: Short fiction, Against Babylon (1986), p. 276

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American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935

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