The Love He Couldn't See

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of a clif

er's guitar, the wood

fire, but she pushed the feeling

to finish. N

buzzing, a swarm of angry in

ghost from a life that felt like someone e

posts, she thought. He

room for a dying fol

st on her, a bitter

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