She becomes terrified and embarrassed and runs away because she thinks he is only with her because his devotion seemed more like a curse than true love. In this text you can catch a lot of similes and metaphors like: "Those calves, I swear, like bricks" (Rassette, 31), "He kept his dreams about us hidden, he piled them up like those gas station receipts that you get sticks in the back pocket of my jeans” (Rassette, 32), “It's charming, but in a dusty way, like the chimes of an old clock” (Rassette, 34), “Now I felt shriveled and curled up, more like a fetus feasting on a Siamese twin than a mother raising a child” (Rassette, 31); this quote can also fall into the category of images, although it is a little too gory for readers to read about love piece of text because it is one of those cliché stories where there is always a happy ending. It is also told from the first person point of view, along with the other two
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