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disappeared from my life, leaving me to

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ties, a name that makes men twice my age

raper, in the same freezing wind, looking up

ght, walks in, his expr

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him w

nd cut through my thin coat that night, the way my tears

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years have been hard on him. He's thinner, his shoulders are slumped, and his eyes carry the heav

f the old Ethan in his eyes

ive minutes. Please, ju

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miliar pain. It gives me a bitter, hollow satisfaction. T