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throughout hig
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kids everyone
like. Captain
manage to sco
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to work a hell
reason, he a
he lived in a tr
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me was more r
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cou
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manage to fin
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glare a
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her third time
, at which Lisa
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hand itched t
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m. I could give
done it, Mack
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at my s
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hought it mi
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to say a wor
with her elbow
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however, ungr
just gave hi
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also knew how
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kindness
ink you’re doin
face to where
ba
make a decent
say thank you
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me since Lisa
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most bogus sm
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ee
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she’d been so
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l, it was high
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thing,
r eyes on mine
e last few ti
iven her a talki
n her end, agr
y father. But,
is the wrong w
ed. Not like she
she stood the
little confuse
ng her shoulde
the sta
and Dad know a
they get home.
it’s what they
on the town.
first to go, ri
h, but wait, w
f thinking hard,
damn easy. “I
allow
lbeit the brief
lmost innoce
atter. I’d kno
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arried. I’d be
a clue what wa
pen about dati
n divorced for
hadn’t had a s
ently told he
cing her to me
er the look on
one, how quie
that night, and
nths. We’d gott
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peared, to be
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toward me, stu
gaze scanned
do you wa
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true. But I w
ase, what I wa
me. Okay, may
ring the execu
head, it could
me than for her
benefits, too.
er a while to s
is it,
ound me. This
ney she was o
hook my head.
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hat do you wan
cident be
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an
r arms across
are then nodded
ort of nod. I
t made my
I want?” I wa
hands on he
, but how my
bare that spoil
ing her down
that. Not yet. “
e a better pers
er all. And, qui
is hurting our f
hurting you.” I
be better, to
n her head or
d to, and just
’d been when I’
whom I didn’t
me off a coupl
ea of the reaso
ave had some
when we’d bee
o my room and
hose nights wer
r. But then s
I hadn’t wanted
older than her
en fifteen, jai
biggest and
es, there had
een us, but I w
nd I had. But m
y ended any fr
tried to talk to
wasn’t her I w
alk to me, not
a way, I guess
ike she was, at
me feel even m
But I’d be lying
and much more
pt up right
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