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Submitted to Contest #95
“Darlene” – he would whisper that name over and over. The very way he was pronouncing her name, the tenderness and delicacy he enclosed in that word would convince even a complete stranger that he was in love. It wasn’t the routine, ordinary love that we see around so often, but rather the burning, enrapturing and consuming feeling that left nothing intact on its way. She was passing by his window every morning – black-haired, bright and beautiful. Any great portraitist would desire to immortalize her on canvas – for that embodiment of pur...
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