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What She Carried

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Roman

The house is calm when I come home.

I loosen my tie walking down the corridor, already tired in the way that sits in your bones rather than your eyes, the Diamond Club meeting having taken more out of me than I want to admit. Not physically. Just the particular weight of years of patience finally converting into action.

I push open the bedroom door.

The en suite light is on, the door open, steam drifting into the bedroom in soft curls.

I hear water moving.

I walk to the doorway.

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Angelie Roa
That's given. What I meant was. Do they mutually even without saying it think of their relationship now as lovers?
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Angelie Roa
Especially when they make love. Hahaha!
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Richa
soon to be husband and wife Mrs raven ballerie
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