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    Strength

    “You can do this,” he said with an intensity that made me smile.

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    Doug Langille

    Doug Langille

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    Strength

    “You can do this,” he said with an intensity that made me smile. I marvelled at the heft of the weapon, feeling its steely coolness, knowing a simple purposeful twitch would bring it to life and end another. After all that happened, how much I’d changed, of course I could.

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    Tags: grounded, intimacy, tension

    Published: September 22, 2014

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