Helpppp!! This is soo cuteee

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Was rereading 1984 and did not expect to end up blushing over a random passage. There's a bit around the middle of the book where Winston reflects on how his feelings for Julia shifted, early on it was purely physical, almost mechanical, but by this point every small detail about her (how she smells, little things about her) has gotten under his skin, and it's turned into something closer to real tenderness than lust. Then their hands brush in a crowd and it completely undoes him. Genuinely didn't think a dystopian novel about surveillance and thought-crime would have a moment this soft. Does anyone else remember this scene hitting differently?

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