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The Drawer of Crotchless Disappointment

Emilia Palaveeva
6 min readFeb 22, 2021

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It is gone. She rummages through the bottom drawer of the nightstand, where she keeps the delicate lingerie. Every few months, she secretly puts on a piece or two, in an absurd hope that they would somehow stat fitting her again. The pieces are more than ten years old, from before she had the second baby. Usually, she takes them off right after and then, depressed, refuses to have sex for a couple of weeks. She calls…

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