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The Golden Key

Apples

Transcript:

In the beginning I thought of the relationship as an apple, and I pictured myself holding the apple cupped in my two hands.

I thought,

I can love this apple, and that means I can let myself be loved.

My family home is in the woods surrounded by trees one hundred feet tall.

Did you know that when it’s windy all those leaves sound like the ocean?

I ask my hairdresser about the acorns that sit atop his workstation next to a collection of crystals and Buddhas.

On my tombstone it says,

Here lies Kate Learson,

rolling in her grave in ecstasy.

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