“Had he pushed my thighs apart right then and there, his sunned skin dark against the tallow pallor of my own nocturnal flesh, and plunged two of his thick fingers thick within me, I would have felt it apt, so natural.”

—  Antonella Gambotto-Burke, book The Pure Weight of the Heart

Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 131.

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Australian author and journalist 1965

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