Speciation

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Successfully making me feel beautiful and sexy. That's the most powerful aphrodisiac.

Spot on, ella. I like the nibbling and laughs too, but when this happens anew my buttons light up and the perdita-machine starts humming. (I can get inordinately hummable.)

I am reminded of an interview a long time ago with Catherine Deneuve (whom I adore for a variety of reasons, including her inordinate physical beauty). She was asked if she gets tired of being called the most beautiful woman in films, the world, etc., and whether it's a problem judging what men want from her. (Recall, this is a woman who had a child by Mastroianni.)

She said that she had become inured to hearing it, but that once in a great while a man might tell her she was beautiful and it would be as if she were hearing it for the very first time.

I felt that way just a few months ago. It's wonderful.

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