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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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e c
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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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r
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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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e tolerated her delibe
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er meant sac