She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.
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LISA LING People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up... LISA SEE I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I ... LISA LAMPANELLI Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural ... LISA VANDERPUMP I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and see... LISA LAMPANELLI 'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing... LISA LUTZ With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie -... LISA MURKOWSKI Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than... LISA LING I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears. LISA GARDNER In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5t... LISA MORTON A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government. LISA MURKOWSKI Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure ... LISA RANDALL My love of baking might have originated with my grandmother. She had a lemon tree growing in her bac... LISA GRAFF We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore ... LISA MURKOWSKI I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprou... LISA EDELSTEIN 'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going... LISA LAMPANELLI It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between t... LISA HANNIGAN With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings o... LISA LOEB I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python... LISA GRAFF Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of s... LISA RANDALL In Beverly Hills, it's very spoiled in terms of the quality of life. I think the climate and the... LISA VANDERPUMP Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I&... LISA LING If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write anoth... LISA JAKUB For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever. LISA LESLIE I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone thro... LISA VANDERPUMP I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or... LISA GANSKY Damn it. What are we exactly calling a 'masculine problem'? Did he have trouble running the flag up?... LISA KLEYPAS