expectant and dreaming of a way out

The very idea of this wild break-you-down love thrilled the young women because they imagined it as something akin to freedom, the submission enjoyed by the one who chose it, a reckless act of self-expenditure.

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They looked long and hard …, expectant and dreaming of a way out.

Wayward lives, beautiful experiments, Saidiya Hartman
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