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Submitted to Contest #49
You had me wrapped around your finger from day one. Telling me things you had kept in locked boxes for what felt like decades, or at least that's what you said. Listening to you spill secrets from your lips felt like ripping open one-hundred year old envelopes, the pages stained from the ink getting smeared and the discoloration of the paper. Telling me your dark past gave me a sense of trust, and from the way you spoke I knew some of it was true, so I took everything you said with a grain of salt so that you had someone to lean on. You coul...
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