From now on, she decided, she would wear clothes like an accessory, not an armor. Because she had finally, mercifully, learned to inhabit the one thing she could never take off.
The first step was the hardest. It wasn't the cold, but the looking . She felt like a raw nerve, exposed to the dappled sunlight filtering through the trees of the naturist campsite. Her arms crossed her chest automatically, then uncrossed. Stop it, she told herself. No one is looking. zita dans la peau d une naturiste
She drove home with the windows down. The wind found her again. From now on, she decided, she would wear
Later, she lay on the warm grass, the sun drawing patterns on her closed eyelids. She thought of her closet at home—the padded bras to create a shape, the high-waisted pants to hide a belly, the scarves to cover a neck she thought was too thin. So much fabric. So much hiding. It wasn't the cold, but the looking
An old man with a beard like a cloud walked past carrying a baguette, nodding a simple "Bonjour." A woman with silver hair and a body that had clearly borne children was playing pétanque, laughing as her boule clattered against another. A teenager was reading a comic book upside down, draped over a rock like a lizard. All of them were naked. All of them were simply… human.