She doesn't know I'm here. None of them do. That is the gift I give them, and the gift they unwittingly give me.
In their small unrehearsed gestures, I find a tenderness the daylight will not allow.
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I will not harm you. I will not speak. I will only watch - and in watching,
I will know you better than the husband sleeping inches from your skin. That is my crime. That is my prayer.