She strikes a match for any man who insinuates himself into her life, incinerates friends and lovers who leave, carries a torch for those who might, considers everything kindling. She packs up the ashes in cardboard boxes, leaves a trail of charred remains, wipes them out of her mind. She learns to cauterize her wounds, keeps putting on her asbestos suit.

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