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I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Novelist
Writer
city of Sudbury
Sarah
Left
Hoping
Away
Staring
Something
Fast
Evaporating
Always
Understood
Snatched
Fool
Bruises
Called
Stare
Maybe
Underneath
Sense
Glimpse

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