p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="center"strongPrologue./strong/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"At times, he wondered if he had only dreamed you./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"So suddenly you came upon him and still so suddenly you went away, vanishing as each song came to a slow, quiet end…/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Were you only a dream?/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Had his lonely mind made you up?/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"A vampire does not sleep any longer, dreams belonged to mortals, but Jasper was both monster and man...he too had hopes! He still wished and wanted and emhungered/em for something he could not quite understand./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Perhaps that was all you were…/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"A bewitching figment produced by starvation of the soul, created to comfort him in his loneliest hours./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"It would have been far easier to believe that you were no more then a dream, a far way fantasy, but, somewhere deep within himself, Jasper believed that you were so much more. In his heart, he believed that you were real. He believed that he loved you./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"And he believed that you would always return./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"emAlways./em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"When you came, it was slowly and sweetly. There was never a warning, a knock on the door or a message to be heard. You simply appeared suddenly from the crowd of faces, smiling up at him as you always did. And all at once, the feeling of the sweetest contentment soothed his soul...but you would always leave him again./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"And he would be left chasing that joy, starving until you returned to him./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"The more he devoured, he more he wanted. You were the sweetest of honey drenching his hungry lips, a temptation that he could not break away from./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"You appeared and he feasted./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"And he starved when you left./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"But no matter how many times you had broken his heart, some part of Jasper remained wanting for you. That little part of him whispered that one day he would have you...that even when you abandoned him over and over, you would come back./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Always./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"At times, he wondered if he had only dreamed you./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"So suddenly you came upon him and still so suddenly you went away, vanishing as each song came to a slow, quiet end…/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Were you only a dream?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Had his lonely mind made you up?/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"A vampire does not sleep any longer, dreams belonged to mortals, but Jasper was both monster and man...he too had hopes! He still wished and wanted and emhungered/em for something he could not quite understand./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Perhaps that was all you were…/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"A bewitching figment produced by starvation of the soul, created to comfort him in his loneliest hours./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"It would have been far easier to believe that you were no more then a dream, a far way fantasy, but, somewhere deep within himself, Jasper believed that you were so much more. In his heart, he believed that you were real. He believed that he loved you./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"And he believed that you would always return./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"emAlways./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"When you came, it was slowly and sweetly. There was never a warning, a knock on the door or a message to be heard. You simply appeared suddenly from the crowd of faces, smiling up at him as you always did. And all at once, the feeling of the sweetest contentment soothed his soul...but you would always leave him again./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"And he would be left chasing that joy, starving until you returned to him./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"The more he devoured, he more he wanted. You were the sweetest of honey drenching his hungry lips, a temptation that he could not break away from./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"You appeared and he feasted./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"And he starved when you left./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"But no matter how many times you had broken his heart, some part of Jasper remained wanting for you. That little part of him whispered that one day he would have you...that even when you abandoned him over and over, you would come back./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Always./p