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Portrait of a Stranger Who Looks Like My Cousin

While sitting at a bar in my father’s neighborhood, I was struck by a beautiful woman who closely resembles a cousin I once had a crush on.

Paging through an old journal, I found this….

A beautiful German woman.

I’m headed off to the Chemistry sex party with Serena, and I can’t. Fucking. Wait.

She’s striking.

A vision of beauty, rendered poorly in words by me, and worse, in picture, by Dall-E.

A sighting of beauty.

Beautiful. Serious. Chintzy.

I’m out of my mind. Or, a paean.

She’s 5’4″, she’s black, has straightened, slightly wiry hair pulled back in a ponytail, and wears a scoop-neck beige cotton[…]