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He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

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At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be pa...more

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There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

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It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

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She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

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The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim...more

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Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

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It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

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It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

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Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?