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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="147ae2199028600a0f2888c1dbfbf025"Laxus finally let the tears go, it felt awful. He didn't want this to happen, he didn't want to cry when he did this. He wanted to be the stoic baddass everyone saw him as, the thunder god that Freed admired. It was just a stupid fairy tale love story he based on his life to tell to Margaret to get her to sleep.../p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1f24360df92980f432babdec77090e50"Freed stood up from the bed to close the door, "Let it out. Nobody is going to see or hear... cry as much as you need to."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="147ae2199028600a0f2888c1dbfbf025"Laxus finally let the tears go, it felt awful. He didn't want this to happen, he didn't want to cry when he did this. He wanted to be the stoic baddass everyone saw him as, the thunder god that Freed admired. It was just a stupid fairy tale love story he based on his life to tell to Margaret to get her to sleep.../p
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