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  • I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

    Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume