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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Before We Visit the Goddess
Would you like to come in?" I said. My hands were sweaty. Inside my chest an ocean heaved and crashed and heaved again."I would," he said. I saw his Adam's apple jerk as he swallowed. "Thank you."I was distracted by that thank you. We had moved past the language of formality long ago. It was strange to relearn it with each other.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Before We Visit the Goddess
She put on some music. Drum and flute, I think. She played it soft, because it was dreadfully late, a time when all good men and women, or at least the practical ones, had gone to bed. Then she danced for me.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Before We Visit the Goddess
Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.
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Before We Visit the Goddess
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
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