I think we made love three times that final summer. Made lo… - Robert Silverberg

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I think we made love three times that final summer. Made love! Preposterous euphemism for fucking, almost as bad as the most grotesque of all, slept together. Whatever Sundara and I made, in those three pressings of flesh to flesh, love couldn’t have been the commodity; we made sweat, we made rumpled sheets, we made heavy breathing, we even made orgasms, but love? Love?

Robert Silverberg

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Robert Silverberg (born 15 January 1935) is a prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

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Pen Names: Dozens • Walker Chapman • John Dexter • Franklin Hamilton • Paul Hollander • Calvin M. Knox • Lloyd Robinson • Lee Sebastian • Robert Randall

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