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2024-10-29 19:42:56Things done in the power of emotions, can sometimes be looked back at with total regret.
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Yohan drops me off at the doorstep of Sam and Clancy’s house.
We didn’t talk much after what happened back at the inn. I was kind of expecting to be embarrassed after what happened. But, to be perfectly honest, I don’t feel any of that. What I feel is something that I could describe as flying. If that even makes sense. I guess this is what the heroines of most of the fiction books I’ve read felt like. This is probably what cloud 9 feels like.
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