Immortal Lovers

B: I'm cookie dough. I'm not done baking. I'm not finished becoming whoever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next thing, and maybe one day I turn around and realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And then, you know, if I want someone to eat— or enjoy warm, delicious cookie me, then...that's fine. That'll be then. When I'm done.

A: Any thoughts on who might enjoy— Do I have to go with the cookie analogy?

B: I'm not really thinking that far ahead. That's kind of the point.

A: I'll go start working on the second front. Make sure I don't have to use it.

B: I do... sometimes think that far ahead.

A: Sometimes is something.

B: Be a long time coming. Years, if ever.

A: I ain't getting any older.

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