div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Steve, are you out of your mind? She's a kid!" Bucky hissed./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve ran a hand through his hair, uncharacteristically disheveled, before jabbing a finger into his friend's chest. "Don't act like you haven't had the exact same thoughts I have."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Pausing, Bucky set his jaw and rubbed his hand along it, thinking. He closed his eyes for a moment, sighing heavily. When he opened his eyes again, something had changed, shifted inside him. His voice was low when he spoke. "She's only twenty-five."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""She's still an adult. She's made it clear what she wants."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""We're a little more than adults, Stevie. We knew her grandmother for fuck's sake." Throwing his hands in the air, Bucky stepped back, pacing around the dark living room. "We're decades older than her."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve's eyes had a wild glint to them that Bucky wasn't sure he'd ever seen before. He didn't blink as he replied. "It doesn't seem to phase her. Quite the opposite, I'd argue."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Jesus, Steve," He muttered, shaking his head. "Aren't you supposed to be the one talking us out of this? The voice of reason? The morality compass?"/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""I'm having a really hard time thinking of any reason I shouldn't pick up the phone and call her right now." Steve's voice was calm, even./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Okay," Bucky dropped down next to him on the couch. "Say…you do that. You call her. Then what?"/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve stared blankly ahead, absently reaching for the half-empty beer that was all but forgotten on the coffee table./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""She answers," Bucky continued. "You say…?"/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""I don't know." He sighed, seeming to break from his trance./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""I mean," Bucky let out a deep breath, leaning back against the sofa. "I get it. Believe me, I fucking get it. The fact is…she's twenty five. We're…not. She's the granddaughter of a girl we knew when we were teenagers. She's Stark's prized fucking pony, whatever the hell internship program he's running." He ran his hand along his jaw again. "As if all of that weren't reason enough to forget this whole thing…there's still the most glaringly obvious issue."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""What's that?" Steve chuckled, pinching the bridge of his nose, as if in disbelief at the conversation they were having./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""There's two of us…and one of her."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"A moment of silence hung between them./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve's voice was low, cautious./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Why does that have to be a problem?"/p
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p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Steve, are you out of your mind? She's a kid!" Bucky hissed./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve ran a hand through his hair, uncharacteristically disheveled, before jabbing a finger into his friend's chest. "Don't act like you haven't had the exact same thoughts I have."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Pausing, Bucky set his jaw and rubbed his hand along it, thinking. He closed his eyes for a moment, sighing heavily. When he opened his eyes again, something had changed, shifted inside him. His voice was low when he spoke. "She's only twenty-five."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""She's still an adult. She's made it clear what she wants."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""We're a little more than adults, Stevie. We knew her grandmother for fuck's sake." Throwing his hands in the air, Bucky stepped back, pacing around the dark living room. "We're decades older than her."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve's eyes had a wild glint to them that Bucky wasn't sure he'd ever seen before. He didn't blink as he replied. "It doesn't seem to phase her. Quite the opposite, I'd argue."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Jesus, Steve," He muttered, shaking his head. "Aren't you supposed to be the one talking us out of this? The voice of reason? The morality compass?"/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""I'm having a really hard time thinking of any reason I shouldn't pick up the phone and call her right now." Steve's voice was calm, even./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Okay," Bucky dropped down next to him on the couch. "Say…you do that. You call her. Then what?"/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve stared blankly ahead, absently reaching for the half-empty beer that was all but forgotten on the coffee table./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""She answers," Bucky continued. "You say…?"/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""I don't know." He sighed, seeming to break from his trance./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""I mean," Bucky let out a deep breath, leaning back against the sofa. "I get it. Believe me, I fucking get it. The fact is…she's twenty five. We're…not. She's the granddaughter of a girl we knew when we were teenagers. She's Stark's prized fucking pony, whatever the hell internship program he's running." He ran his hand along his jaw again. "As if all of that weren't reason enough to forget this whole thing…there's still the most glaringly obvious issue."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""What's that?" Steve chuckled, pinching the bridge of his nose, as if in disbelief at the conversation they were having./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""There's two of us…and one of her."/p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"A moment of silence hung between them./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;"Steve's voice was low, cautious./p
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div class="k31gt" style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Favorit, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 15px 0px; word-break: break-word; box-sizing: border-box; width: 540px; min-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px var(-post-padding) 0px var(-post-padding);"
p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px;""Why does that have to be a problem?"/p
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