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Submitted to Contest #74
I had never seen her before. And her immaculate beauty made it difficult to look away. I pushed harder and harder on the treadmill, as beads of sweat formed by the sides of my unshaven face, only to break down and fall on the moving belt by the thrust of my jogs. The heart pounded an extra beat, overshooting the maximum heart rate to a level fit for half my age. On another day, this would have pleased me enough to brag about to my wife and the kids. But today, it had more to do with the revisit of a long forlorn feeling in the heart than any...
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