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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="20c7209fbb6b2756fe43ccec2e04b7d9""Hey beautiful" he says walking over to me, giving me a peck on the lips,/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="74361485272e163ba44028172b36c3f9"Am I missing something?/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="64e3f4159600afa9f0f9e646f3828a5e""Ali, love, why don't you go show Chloe upstairs, spend some time together" He walks over to me and gives me a quick kiss, I smile as he pulls back "Do you guys want some snacks first?" I ask. See calm. No urges to kill her, unlike Veroncica, who was a em style="box-sizing: border-box;"*bleeping* *bleep*/em and so much more/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="a12f124b8914cba5f0d11d1453657aac""I understand why you like her, she offers food, when she's not bosing people around " Frosty smirks. I stick my tongue out at him and walk into the kitchen, I grab some chips, and popcorn, I turn around and see Chloe standing there watching me./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ec92ada9e79e9bbcf84e90bf7a947954""I know about you and Connor" she says playing with her thumbs "I- he- I'm sorry about your parents and sister." She finally says/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f2ff7cc9017e24b6144dbca498568289"She laughs and nods "I'd like that."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7ce39418de18dd85044c10bbeb9471b7""Juliana first" I say. We were finally going to talk about all the crazy crap that's been happening./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="20a38ca1f732411c1ec2e1545262db9d"Cole chuckles, "Of course you dealt with it." He pauses, a thoughtful look on his face "How'd she call you"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ec92ada9e79e9bbcf84e90bf7a947954""I know about you and Connor" she says playing with her thumbs "I- he- I'm sorry about your parents and sister." She finally says/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f2ff7cc9017e24b6144dbca498568289"She laughs and nods "I'd like that."/p
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