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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

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She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a p...more

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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.