What Young People Did Not Know

 

What young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm ones, that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter.

— Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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