We want to be wanted by the people we would want to want us. For myself, I’ve never felt enough of this, but I’m sure that’s because it’s an insatiable desire. I can imagine being Marilyn Monroe, and becoming weary of being universally lusted after (okay, not Tony Curtis). But she powerfully wanted all the other kinds of desire that weren’t about her fi…
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