https://bookwyrm.social/book/2361441/s/life-of-m

'When our children were little we would dress them. They would hold up their arms as we pulled an item of clothing over their head. They would shoot their arms straight up in the air. The arms would go into the sleeves and for a moment their head and face were muffled in the garment. We would wiggle and pull and then their head would appear again through the neck-hole. Their cheeks would be red, their hair slightly unruly, they would be laughing. They always found it funny, this moment when their head was inside the garment. They thought they had disappeared and then come back again, like a magic trick. They held up their arms trustingly, waiting to be made to disappear. We feel there is no one in the whole world we could trust like that, no one who could dress us, no one who could make us disappear.'

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