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- 01The Pleasure of Being AliveI think one of the sexiest things about a person is their appetite for life. Not how beautiful they are, how successful they’ve become, or how effortlessly they can command a room.
- 02The Man Who Could Never CommitThere is a kind of man who can receive a woman’s love wholeheartedly and still find himself searching for something outside of it.
- 03The Magic I Thought I LostI’ve been thinking about what people sometimes call “life swapping” or “destiny stealing”—the idea that someone can envy another person’s beauty, magnetism, luck, confidence or life so…
“I don’t ever want to become so sophisticated that I stop being seducible by life.”