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Fag-Hag dialectics - by roro <3 - communion - https://folieimposee.substack.com/p/new-friend-project

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an anthropological study in platonic situationships

Two lives intersect in a chance social encounter. Points of impetus, geneses, all heaving with the weight of possibility. Like Plath’s great fig tree, each intersection hangs like a newborn fig off the branches of one’s life, unripe and fledgling. That they might blossom into something more substantive, the fruit of acquaintanceship or familiarity or even friendship, relies upon their nourishment; the strange, arcane rituals through which we prune a stranger into a loved one. That cultivation of intimacy is a daunting process. It teems with vulnerability and rejection like so many weeds, and…

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