"I lay in bed last night and thought of G.P. I thought of being in bed with him. I wanted to be in bed with him. I wanted the marvellous, the fantastic...

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
~ John Fowles ~












We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobweb...
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