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From Joe's writing

Her lips sent electricity through my soul, and in an instant I knew that those lips had once upon a time graced the mouth of Monique Giroux, the French exchange student I’d made out with a couple of times in my senior year of high school.

— A Stranger With Your Hair, from Odds and Endings