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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; color: #555555;" data-p-id="daef86a9589ee53fd8293219fb163871"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"I go as fast as I can, but apparently not fast enough because the bar Bucky's hanging onto starts to break. Bucky's eyes catch mine and he opens his mouth, preparing himself to say something. "I love you."/em/p
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