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Amid the all around din, silence like the center of a hurricane enveloped them both. “Could this honestly get any suckier?” Fergus wondered to himself as he grasped his own sweaty, nervous fingers under the table, yanking then releasing them one after the other. Sitting opposite him was his first-meeting date Willow. Owing to her extended delay in responding to one of his opening questions, he'd already pegged her, using his own unique personal classification system, as 'negligently tardy'. She’d said she was 27. She was not only wearin...
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