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p style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica neue font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0px 0px;"It took me a second, halfway through, at least attempting, taking off my coat to realize who and where the voice came from. Edd, in the kitchen. Our kitchen. It's Ed's too, but he practically lives at May's now.../p
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p style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica neue font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0px 0px;"I can feel his eyes burning into my face, what did he say again?/p
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p style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica neue font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0px 0px;"I'm staring at him. He stares back with a knowing gleam in his cloudy, half-lidded eyes. Jesus, did he sleep at all?/p
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p style="color: #444444; font-family: helvetica neue font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 0px 0px;"I'm staring at him. He stares back with a knowing gleam in his cloudy, half-lidded eyes. Jesus, did he sleep at all?/p
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