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embrace during life's hardships, and stood strongly togeth

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of anger. "That my closest friend,no..., my siste

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ouldn't

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couldn't quite name,guilt, frustrati

s voice eerily calm, like that excuse would some

ght. You just tripped and fell into her bed?" M

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urt me, but you slept with my sister?" My voice rose, thick

my gaze would lessen the weight of what he'd don

mit, Se

s my

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use you accidentally ended up with Vanessa on

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didn't

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g down on my chest. The atmosphere in the room felt suffocating, thick w

earing down on my chest. The air in the room felt heavy, dense with

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