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like someone st
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the chair o
finish this
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letely clueless, but he understood the
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the notes he
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remember this
led m
til I reached across th
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nds to
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or
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s fi
dn't make a sar
ollowed felt stran
attention to t
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derstand El
ther wanted my attention or
did ne
erything I said and looked comple
irrit
was some
couldn't q
ully as she concent
hair fell ac
hind her ear wit
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as rid
ortant things
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cted th
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d up ab
to tak
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t his expressi
ther there was more to Adrian Blac
about it any further, som
lo
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hru
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re doing an
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closed my
t id
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s lik
sm
ow what
and picked
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ression
use
lovely a
before she c
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to the table,
were no lo
and spotted Chlo
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shru
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hy
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row
to know she wouldn't leav
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looked
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hed, looking s
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en't fi
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sted m
d teach your friend how
w tigh
did sh
ok my
ng imp
le
called me by my actual name
ked a
ha
esit
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all, humour
tly what I i
nd continu
Adrian rema
nge feeling that the boy everyone wanted was car
rately didn't want
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