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Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems Quotes: ...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.
         

...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.


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This page presents the quote "...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.". Author of this quote is Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems. This quote is about grief, divorce,.