She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
Lauren DeStefanoI want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.
Lauren DeStefanoSo how long do you think itโll be?โ he says. โBefore the next hurricane comes along to take you home.โ โCan I tell you my biggest fear?โ I say. โYes. Tell me.โ โThat it will be a very windless four years.
Lauren DeStefanoHis three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.
Lauren DeStefano