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Heat rushed to my cheeks, and I considered sticking my head under a pile of cotton batting.

After getting dropped off in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, she writes: “There was no moon. The sky was like black cotton batting that enveloped us in a way that felt like walking through clear water in a pool painted black. ... We kept walking and walking, blindly in the dark, along the deserted road that we couldn’t see underfoot. There were no points of horizon, no beginning, no end to the highway.”

I climbed up, and the wild-haired old redhead inserted a tube through my cervix and stuffed cotton batting in my vagina to hold it in place.

These waxy, soft-bodied insects suck the liquid out of plants and leave white masses that look like rough cotton batting on foliage where they lay their eggs.

Q: I want to wash my antique comforter, which isn’t very thick and is more like a quilt because it’s filled with cotton batting, but it won’t fit in my machine.