Love That Can't Wait

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d, who was named Everleigh Ford. And she was a campus beauty. Everyone around us

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nd told his friends, "She's a lummox wit

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aid that anyone might see the te

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s was the first lesson I learned wh

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h when I was jus

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is city for work, and our

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ood behind my mother, looking at the handsome

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o him, yet instinctively

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my hand, offering him a peach-fla

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away and shout

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to play with

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e, and for the next ten years, I rare

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s. And then only after I am about to lose my temper completely, h

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time, I fe

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ls were still petite little sparrows, I was al

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s with my parents, I ended up stayin

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o among the kids, I would always

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didn't serve

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stood out so much was

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nd girls in the school bathroom and they dre

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ore; he was like a fierce protecto

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tears streaming down my face, my wet hair

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urned around, an

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't for girls like you, d

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red my

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, I developed a deep attachment to Gavin, sim

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iking someone was, I had alread

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ions for him; he took girls skiing, and I booked the venues; e

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, he would always throw an ar

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ddy of over te

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e grown taller t

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look up to see his jawline and

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do was straighten my back and

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own him for o

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ten years. Those following wo

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tayed in the local

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e into his dormitory and only then returned to

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, and when I looked up, it w

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riend was attending the same university

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evious girlfriends, who would even

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d the same university. Did this

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phone rang. She answered with a sweet expr

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was Gavin on

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urriedly gathered my clothes and pretended to

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d Gavin's voice through the

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s

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take you ou

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softly after

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nned outsid

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speak to his girlfrien

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is moods like I did or liked getting angry

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th painful clarity that he wa

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erious,

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ld m

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st, like being struck by electricity,

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, burying my he

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I had considered

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he is now, there was a summer wh

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k in her drawer and bring her breakfast,

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things I used

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me, I told mysel

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coul

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when I was nine, watching over him and carin

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ed on for over a decade, and the withdra

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ed, named Samantha Wheeler

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he things Gavin had given her back on her desk, and said, "Being

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ours

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this, she

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dormitory, Everleigh

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the mirror and

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nervous and

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had only two attitudes towards me

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untered such friendliness, a

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o hide away like a snail to

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along normally in t

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her hair. I caught a glimpse of her gat

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d, the more some

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ded me of

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wa

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just like Samantha back i

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y wanted

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ho had been yearning in

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were assigned to the same cl

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previous work and hoped I could design an

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was drafting, camp

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my design and

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dress, did you d

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ything, just no

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ddenly smiled at me, saying, "Eliza

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g able to find a suitable o

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be too complicated.

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can whip it

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r voice and lo

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nt over to him and took hold

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to see me in a dr

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king to him, her ey

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back to his drawing a

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ut when you

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straighten my back, and said, "Sorry, I

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don't h

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ed at me i

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been a new fe

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s was such a small matter he w

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ed me to book hotels and venue

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d I would go through the trouble, b

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e, on such a small ma

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party stil

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the dress I designed for

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to the backstage and st

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as communal an

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ld take a p

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n campus beauty san

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three sleepless nigh

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re, and the spotlight on stage made her loo

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ar boys whistling

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o explain, campus beauty came off stage and rushed over, grab

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e success of my performan

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her, then at me, expe

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ead and said,

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esign a dr

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s was mad

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of my hand, and said, "Eliz

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ed to make

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end chi

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ll heard it

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tage, probably to pick up campus beau

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his arm a

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e to design a dress f

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eased face and immediately u

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d say something for me, just

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d his hea

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n't k

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teeth from b

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cou

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campus beauty was delib

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nd's side for over ten years was so

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uld see he had no

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er meant sac