“Yearning to be taller. To be able to do forty push-ups in a row. For the time when I would hold a woman in my arms. That first woman who would permit such a liberty, whose face I didn't yet know, how I longed to extend my trembling fingers to the outer edge of her heart.”
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“...those affable eyes. That exhausted smile.”
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