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armada manicured hands fidgetsd vaguely as she train",, her eyes on the datant clock. Twelve o four - he waslate. Grossi, lorentino's GhanaeLerisLic tomato scent flooded D'ortssa'a senses as she waited. She found it oddly comforting that, although 80 much Lad changed be. ,roan them, their favourite restaurant grim had the game "grinc. atmosphere as that evening in June. That in191t signaled the creation of an obsession that had con",, nod her mind and 80.1 for almost every waking moment since. it was the first murrered 'I love you', the first charm on the braceleL, the beginning. run, inna Lain't won the bracelet 11n exactly a year. After their relationship ended it had become hoary under the weiglit of the memories it carried. rat I. 8,111 went everywhere with her, hidden in the darke corner of handbag. martssa wag unable to throw it away, bur she wag equally unable to acknowledg t's existence. rho bracele, 's mineintloned presence in her lite had over her head since she first fure" it in her bag, ripping it off as her mutinge disintegrated.

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Checking the clock yet again, D'artssa "",, o. 81y Buramd ranchinghip. As in", jam'a focus chum to the "ham, . further the omronndinga for any sign of him. She didn't bow if around the bracele, , the passionate and exciting rinnories became tonerg the lone heart to gay sorry for forger^ng their he was coming, or even if he'd got her message for that matter. Every time the second hand rounded the twelve her anniversary, the ants, mas tree for the year he EUae coarseas, desperate denials came one grep closer to the point where the teddy bear for giving un on her career to gunport ms. At the time each event had seemed a small price to pay for admitting that he ms not coming was the only option. chadng her lib mm mm They core in^icont, un^ Tile clock hit toolve riftsen and madam's cool demeanour began to falter. Eragn, onts of a menu she had un recollection more than tokens and gpaced far 000.9i apar. that she never Binreddlng littered the tablecloth, providing the only outward noticed the erad"al denim of their relationship. indication of the lint", rid desperation ' sa wag 80 intent Twelve merity mm. mad^ amk back into her emu, content on digs"ismg. She had truly behaved that he would come; at, or all they had been in love for more than half of their for a moment with the gentle aromas of olive and real wafting over from the Lad table. She un it had taken tide lifetimes. Or at lean. , she had been. BE", jam removed the ,, ham, bracelet from her bag with all the enthusiasm of a man destined for the eauows. it was 80 sure, bur the realisation freed hat' She had been trapped < in the past, desperate to conserve what Gould am be saved*: Gaming. lose herself in ale ambient chatter that filled mmve twenty four. Be inI^t be the room, 80 easy to continue being may, along in orhar attor all un^by people's lives and never try to find our what neat wrong. wag nor a sinn of big, or he in191t not. wag inc longer rel"charity forced Gomame^who^r or not he lama hat, either way there wag rob the bad come here to do 80. herself to tiltsr nut the exa^Grated tales of this monme's nom^ left to be xinged. ^aking one malloolr am^ a sporting promss eat^ over ^in rests^ant she ms sue the would am or re^ to, "^ at, the sinto I^UV o^ into the alto^ at^ an of the table opposite. She concentrated on the broode, . ^;;'^in^, t;, a ""!:;:,, b^;:;^:^^'hadiet, One of the first "harm. he eaue her bad 1.11"" of^ I. mm ^in a long time to reamse, bur their reintlonchlp mm hymn < saving. The pain he had caused her e^ mum on her bee, deeper than a mile one' Lad. Emu^y lone in^^11a'a been in love with a nan who co longer the nam't < A cool numbneBS Grep. un throngi her artremltlea as a year's worth of repressed emotions were finally adoaaed.

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