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"It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it."
Zira A. Fell seemed to all a well-formed individual, constituted of both absolute truths and whims, hungry where it was best for thrill, present where belief most counted. In 1974, he would consider himself well, save for his identity issues, existential ruminations, religious trauma, queer leanings, and the fact that he was an absolute hippie.
Enter Anthony Crowley, messy, passionate, and on his own, largely a rocker and partially a romantic, who has a raging hatred for the world and himself. He Falls. Zira doesn't.
* Originally posted on on AO3, in better format.