When Love Kills a Future
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movements agitated despi
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was
smelled
lavish meal, all m
the apple pie she knew I loved but hadn't
ht her for our first anniversary,
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now, it felt mani
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sible, Ethan! I'm trying here! I'm try
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lowing. "I love you, Ethan. Don't you know
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enting my refusal of a single meal, after I had cooked for her,
portunity with Olivia was not ju
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