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He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
Author
Novelist
Writer
Port Chester
New York
Everything
Necks
Heart
Solid
Guts
Softened
Muscles
Melted
Heat
Pressed
Bones
Muscle
Inside
Kissed
Strong
Neck

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