A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of a — Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of a — Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of a — Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of a — Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of a — Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
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A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

— Mary Johnson, An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir
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