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I imagined passing my armlessness on to other people, their fully grown arms shrinking and shriveling and getting sucked up into their shoulders with a terrible slurping sound after I touched them.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

For the first time I found myself aware of my total armlessness, and I guess I felt like I was sort of naked all of a sudden.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

My armlessness wasn’t strange or weird to them because, like I said, I had always gone to the same school.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling