“She isn’t just about sex, Al. I need to know she is alright. Need to remind her once in a while, she and I, have to be with someone else --- who ---,”
He trailed off and then decided not to edit himself, “---Who understands that the world isn’t just made up of suburban houses. Picket fences. Laundry neatly folded up in a corner. Cooked dinners. Nine to five jobs. And daughters ballet recitals. Or married couples needs.”
Mac didn’t know if Al really could ever understand. “I need her like that. In the same way I need you to remind me the world is, as well, made up of suburban houses and everything else, I can’t have when I get drawn into darker things I can’t escape from.”
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:59 pm (UTC)“She isn’t just about sex, Al. I need to know she is alright. Need to remind her once in a while, she and I, have to be with someone else --- who ---,”
He trailed off and then decided not to edit himself, “---Who understands that the world isn’t just made up of suburban houses. Picket fences. Laundry neatly folded up in a corner. Cooked dinners. Nine to five jobs. And daughters ballet recitals. Or married couples needs.”
Mac didn’t know if Al really could ever understand. “I need her like that. In the same way I need you to remind me the world is, as well, made up of suburban houses and everything else, I can’t have when I get drawn into darker things I can’t escape from.”