Leonard

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(Leon) wife's a pump. drink, euthanasia.

That's live. a eyes, a of. a pallor. liver, D B well. a out. STD's STDs, didn't disappear. Tiredness, restlessness, skin. appetite. patient. a sentence. Cancer! a variant. bones, brain. couldn't immunotherapy.

5 x0 z9 E  D  {5 c# u5 j; @Glenda, daughter, it. a 8 compensation. didn't emotion, a end. Glenda's a washcloth. a eat. stomachs. didn't. suffering. she'd him, her.
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4 G3 w! v7 ^, s3 Va time, Leon. lake. 'The Dolphins'. men, pool, lake. was, visitors, afterthought. 5 him. boys. That's younger. a women, swimwear, a lean, a didn't boy's anatomy. 'bulge' met. a cheeks, shoulders. Glenda's said, "Why dork?" Holsworth, Glenda's friend, sister. "Janice!" over. hello's sister, "Why dork?"

"What dork? Leon? isn't a isn't either. I club, race. That's a man. So, congratulations order."
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$ |4 Z4 S7 Y8 b( vGlenda's aroused, "What race. I all?"
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"In pool, yes. water. 5 10 kilometers. That's 200 a pool."

8 L4 D: n0 X$ p"Ten kilometers? Swimming? They're mad!"

& B5 h9 b3 }" F& J- T, W# z"Well, differ. It's a a race. Anyway, don't anymore. competing, level. A a a them.
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8 S  t. f# e" D3 q"Leon a nerd, know? Intelligence. won't then. Anyway, I'm neighborhood. a years."

"Elvira asked, "Is tonight? party, I mean?" replied, "I don't know. mother. Leon, her. can't help."
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4 H. Z* i: M' B/ l"Can't evening?"
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9 L: ^' C8 A  V; S+ v"Don't that. it's a hospital. a him. pay." grill. said, "Obviously you've before. I one?"
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"Sure. Chicken, pork?" came. "The there. sauce. It's scales."

7 K+ h! }! G0 `# ]0 z"How know?" him. smirked, "Because I them, meat." playfully, "Oh, A cook. Interesting. You're boasting, you?" a willowy, proposed, "If you're interested, I a place. yourself."

"Yeah, I'm prepared." mouth, a mistake. a concentrating sticks. stammered, "I I wrong. intention. I'm sorry."

"It's ok. ill. couldn't anymore. Now, I'm house." didn't that. a uncomfortable moments. Finally, asked, "Can you're here?"

"Sure, not. Only, I ten. I a rest." a out. mind. a distance. her. said. "This won't long. me..."
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That's came. him, a head, a a kiss. a girl. didn't girls. mother, school, work, sleep. importance.

Anyway, much. Glenda's his, a tongue, his. a rock. broken, asked, "What on?"
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"You did.' replied. "To a witch. mum, I account. a guy." fast. right. a guy. funny, eyes. nine. a hand, saying, "Thank a evening." address, possessed.

library. friend. "Tell me, what's matter? You're today." Janice, "That Leonard, number, address?" answering, "I a guy. I you. I don't I it. a runner, reclusive."
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quiet. mother's health, anyway, a worse. couldn't sometimes, father. that. workload, limit. a run. stress. a exercises. musings, a him. "Do you? address." around. a him, suddenly, "Glenda, isn't it? I a a hurry, I company. I it's 10 bike."

+ |/ s, c, z4 f" Y: P2 k"You time?"
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/ l. T. {% ?8 s2 Q' ~% ]"With spare, I shower." smiled, a asked, "Your dinner? stand?"

) `- C1 P8 ?. A5 F! y. |: g' A"Hell, yeah. don't eat?"
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"I wife. bride." very, mother. problems, family's well, disappeared. needed.
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Finally, a Glenda. Leon's away. sister. siblings. said, "Sis I a talk. lion's share. I lion's mum's possessions. a can't now. Therefore, house. It's a mortgage. it. is, here." didn't say. Stammering, accept. a fierce, discussion. end, a family.

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) L1 q0 P- t; j6 [& tJacob. & Daltree. moon. worked, a year, indeed, ready. a little, a maintained, garden. Incorporated, well. a problems.
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' u. H( l% G$ v1 H'Intelligence Incorporated' Leon's life. a wrote, home, property. wasn't amused, least, a ensued. that, euphemistically a discussion, weeks' options. 'Intelligence Incorporated', university, people, refused. didn't it. teacher's 'basic programming'. Intelligence. a pod. a a end. foundations. free. again. children, 13 Jacob, world. mother, born. work, closed, on. worse, too. didn't work. Actually, could. once, a household. children.

"Glenda, I something?"
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"What?' answer.
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' G. K. c* ^( ^) ^7 ~"Can what's wrong?"

"What wrong? wrong, wrong?"
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"OK, I'll a bit. What's you? anymore. You're snappy. work. I don't mind, I you, now, children."
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"I'm NOT!"
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"Dear, I diapers. I morning. a bath."

5 Z, a( Q# [' f0 c$ V"I diapers."
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"No, didn't, dear, that's issue. I help."

7 X: s& ^' ]2 D5 p4 f4 `5 ~$ R6 e"I don't helpis."
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"If that'll again. propose?"

Europe. children. distance. a man, them. a pictures. her. over, Leon, "Shall go?" paradise.
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- a% ]! E' p1 ?# xLeon, 28 now, PhD. Glenda's deteriorating slowly. 'revalidation' trip. parents. a man, Short, a Leon, a nearby. a man. he, now, a house. So, wife's hamper. sex. semen, up. a a DNA. marriage. children. a them, sure.

8 d. i8 @! L2 B2 v' L; t9 P"Daddy?"
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# |" Z! S7 Y" O9 G2 P"Yes Jacob, it?"

"Mama a belly."

"How Jakob?"

"She phone, someone."

"I didn't it, Jacob. me. her?"

6 p! m8 |5 d. g3 a"No, didn't me."
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9 j, \* D% x' \8 Y" ^"Then let's a us. a surprise."

"Yes daddy, I'll a secret." down. hadn't a pregnant, didn't DNA. So, now? a advice. screwed. wasn't a her, children. a part. a a software. was.
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2 k3 }' r" Q( Y8 T9 S1 r+ vOriginally, wildlife, jaguars, on. a software. a mode, last. a out. Leon. a a soon. a software.

him. didn't system. a a lover. Firstly, man. again. Ian, "I'm pregnant." surprised, a retorted, "Is so? who? me."

"I'm it's I happened." heatedly.

"Oh, really?"

. `" j- B6 h) D1 c% Q' s7 |) K" ^"You I me. Well, I days. too. I that. hasn't for, least, year. So, yes. It's yours." angrily, "Well. it. I don't it. I a quickly, a discreetly."

6 z( g) t) d8 j" v"You can't that! abortion? way. That's happen."
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"Don't grub. it." door. a deeper. a pattern. end, out. a dissertation. Most, all, female. a them. a addresses. wasn't way, administration a Short.
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appointment. times, up. "Janice speaking."

, r1 H$ i! Q2 z9 H' ]+ o  U  B"Janice, Daltree. I'd a university."

"That wasn't me, Elvira. a moment, Daltree? Aren't Young?"
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"Yes, correct. met?"

"Yes, Dolphins. Glenda's time. university. She'll we're you."

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! `- ^/ }7 m  P1 L1 J( g5 fMemories, mind, arose. her, remembered. a a violinist. him. stupid? wasn't was, somehow, a prisoner. enchantment. a a cloth. I and, I'm his, only. her, sleep. sensuous. spots. couldn't move, thighs. intrusion. good. a start, them. whispered, "It's you, wetly." cunny. it, a up. mushroom. inexorably, cervix. buttocks. move. Long, Glenda's own. A surfaced, a her. indeterminant spasm. cock. back. a muscles. buttocks. ministrations different. Softer, thighs. pucker. didn't a ring. a finger. didn't happen. her, caressing. stretch. Leon's mushroom. up. lubrification pace. backside. had, Leonard, a horrible, experience. her. didn't time, her. Leon's again. again. brink. her. talking, "Sorry, I wasn't attention." softly.
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"This reconciliation. I you're I a kid, to.
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, `: }, P1 b8 v# L) BI him. drain, harassment, plagiarism. a a atrocities. It's you. a divorce, marriage?" a ear. a dread. say? knew! it. happened? mind. bed, room, room. now, tension, frustration, toll. sniffle. a bawling. sitting, naked, a her. didn't way. him. a gowns. on, woman.

) ^5 d1 T( E  y& G8 lFinally, a asked, "You knew?"
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. V7 z# k2 Q) P+ R. g"Yes, walked, shithead, me." answered.
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"Why didn't something?" scoffed, "And a I achieved? don't a wouldn't too? So, I time." a voice, "And I stupid, me. I guilty, know, baby. Ian? about?"

" I) o0 H" j2 P  D6 C"Short a students. liked, university. own. a review. alike. women. I I all. I, turn, board. tomorrow's newspapers." a time. Finally, "What's now?" asked.
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8 O# w  I" g9 u! I1 IGlenda's emotions, again, again. doorway, big, eyes. bed, sad, morning. wife. enough. straight, tears. a asked, "Now you, obviously, me?"

& w5 F7 G$ \3 i/ h: k5 o"No." replied. "I is, a will. That's me. I don't details.

"Much we, how, this. us? a divorce? It's choice. I though. together, I I'm husband." eyes. thought, him. a character, that's right, harder! I him. I forget? me, almost, I I'm again. up, me, that's a start. again. said, "I I didn't so. Ian." a voice, "I don't again. house. Understand?" ground.
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Again, thinking.
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I'm a crossroads. I soul, arduous. a husband, "Somehow whore," continued, "Those words, seem. Tonight, love, I I lose. love. You!
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"From child, I'm a chance."
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0 H9 r! K" U: {! a: a! a9 j"You didn't condition. it."

' M- Y' x  N# N0 Z, ^: {7 }0 J"I don't so. You're decent. everything. on."
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6 v; ]+ N6 B1 [8 l"First. other. Second. We're a a a cigar, â¬1000 marriage. a 'post nup'. Third, I anymore. physically. well. wrong, we'll it. Fourth. counseling." Leon's terms, wasn't yet.

( V4 U. h& ^" i! t& N# w"I thing. doesn't together. I won't you."
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a hospital's room.

A son. asked, "Shall Benjamin?" flabbergasted. wasn't child. all, wasn't his. a apprehensively, "We? boy?"
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"The a father, doesn't he? can't system. didn't responsibility him. it, me. nodded. couldn't speak. a a wasn't parents. wasn't youngest. didn't , 'Son Trouble'.
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happiness. well. sixteen. A looking, boy, eyes.
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7 N( t4 I3 X: y) R9 o. r, |7 |Benjamin, Ben, a handful. 'father son' cause, accountability narrow. Luckily, and, case, nature.

released, a anxiety. He, himself, well, well, say. Freelancing, teaching, companies. financially. account, reason, appreciatively. a a foundation. knew. a Janice. out, together. on. Glenda's different, friends. Leon, phone, a a friends. a month. thinking, altogether. isn't lately. before. complete. mind. important. a university. university, well, a affair. a guests? later. over. partner. a formal, occasion. them. Janice.

" ]3 U* B2 a7 g6 L+ w' ?3 W8 P9 Q"Leonard, a surprise. friend?"
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"I don't Janice. I'm can't it. Yet!" ensued. swearing, existed. Finally, said, "Oh soul. and, all, a that's loyalty?"
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"It's a suspicion. I a PI. It's work, isn't it?"
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8 D4 H" J/ {: j/ a4 [) T"Well, it's espionage, I someone." 'partying' resort. specifics. a asked, "That a now. I me. I've a secret, I a accepted. formalization morning. attend?"

) R; m  [5 a" i9 D' E3 Y* X3 b"I delighted. how, Glenda's children?"
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"Glenda morning, afternoon. I a me."
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  H, D; W4 ^' ~1 b; S0 }. @1 s"What? say?" explosively. "Stop. there. You're office, I presume?"

"Yes. 2pm. I donation. suckers. "He snickered.
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  Q2 X' `/ R/ f6 r1 A8 k"Don't move. I'll hour." secretary. a through. couldn't a saying, "It's Clarke. a I news. out, please. I'm afternoon." Leon, "What's child? man's have?"

"Benjamin a effort, intended, Short. I abortion. I hadn't jail. I him. I a life. proof? Didn't now?"
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; _# z& T. ~; P" Q. u# G: V; A; }0 b"Yes, it?"
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"What Benjamin's have?"

. v* f3 k: {: R& H"Green. Shit. couldn't be. Glenda's blue. doesn't it." minutes. Finally, stated, "And pounce."

' H( x, E4 w0 k; o3 }"Yes, indeed. I've once. That's I myself. I'm a again. I it. can't now, I'm contract. "

"Consider done. again?"
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! l1 O2 d2 Z& t, z: S1 G"Can guy? "I'll Glenda. " a later. rang. "Daltree." answered.

! O7 w4 j. e( l4 A$ G"Mr. Daltree? Mr. Daltree? "

3 l1 p# X( l3 n( f4 |( P"Yes, that's me. I you?"
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! L5 W8 a' _$ H" y) T"Mr. Daltree, bank. We'd office. It's donation."

; W, g6 @; m5 T+ `. Y"What's matter? " asked, baffled.
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"We're phone. in? It's urgent"

( _5 a& U- }* d1 }0 [" t! h"How 45 minutes? "

8 }" V. W% e; [- l1 y"Splendid. desk." Dr. Vulmere. started, "I blood. 85, wasn't it? recap. STDs. a positive, authorities. syphilis, B D." stupidly, "STDs? them? I one, them?"

/ K/ y$ B, a$ `" pDr. expressionless. on. "I haven't 2 months." turning. Dr. eyes, a voice, "I me, I this." a a treatment. clinic, possible. 270 90 house. Janice. immediately. "Leon! What's new?" happily.
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) ~( O- W# o& b2 \7 I9 H% Z"I'll short, STDs. I'm speak. I a clinic."

8 H4 p. ^: j7 p( b' c"Shame isn't proof, procedures. out?"
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"If me, easier." a a heart.
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% O5 C# q$ {* s0 Y"Of course, I will. like." Janice, didn't eager.

$ |% x4 q! V7 K# l3 T! @"You don't half, feel. you." Leon's that. car, "I've friend. soon." Leon's behavior. distance. touches, a a kiss. a a exhausted. up. Worse, didn't anymore. forever. weekend. confrontation.

later. arrived. saying, "You're evening? Tuesday, together? I a reservation? I back, don't you?"
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"Yes, I I know. I've hurry." door. out, doom. , what's him? Anyway, it's over. a a thought, doesn't know, he? thought. can't be! Don't silly. Leon's rang. answered, "Leon Daltree. morning."

# W0 Y. X6 L# Q6 M0 f1 R$ R"Janice here. I say, isn't. I'm a her. " grunted. it, still, hell. a something. came, on, "This a you, shouldn't who's back. I'm that's negotiable. I too, know. "
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"Ooohkaayyy?" utter.
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"Good. I'll hour." replied, relieved. news. mother's treachery. agenda. friends. even, children. a marriage. was, eyes, a marriage. him. again, a thought, contract. arrive, happens, Glenda's bed. car. street, friend. hell. didn't DNA. Leon, a cheek, inside. door, said, "We talk." quickly. saying, "No, don't are. It's talk. contraire. Let's I'll explain." a chair. down, him, a breath. "Dear, Leonard, I'm you. a you, moment. time. you're children. I ebb, I you, in."

Again, a continued, "Let life. I I now.
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"To I a I feelings. I men, you. it. I more, I emptiness, no, betrayal.

# v3 a. Z# D9 b" [& e# u"Today it's children. I'm shouldn't alone. me. today, you, far." Leon's eyes. empathy, care. said, "I blind. I you. I it's perhaps, I promises. I I've life, I happy." a again. "You I'm now. that, I'm a shot. I'm happy. Yes, I too. I'm divorced. alright?"
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"It's I for. Again, I much. a fuck, I wouldn't hesitate. teeth." wept.
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"It's a while, yes. wait. can't a promise." met. first. before, a now. met, life. tender, be.

arrive. a father, a Janice. said, "So Janice." said, "You right. Yes, I mother, I a and." interrupting, "there I all."

"That son?" stunned, mumbled, "Yes, too. know? I I'm didn't either."

"Neither I," gently, "Do I school? memory. It's Mendel's laws. eyes." asked, "Why didn't me?"
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Caroline's a knife, "When didn't up, I I didn't I her." Leon's crying, "Oh dad. I story, I I I you. system." gently, "Carrie, married?" smirked. "To that's a a night. a it. So, today."
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I don't anything. They're people. I be, a teacher."
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! h$ v5 s9 d" O* E# {; ba day. later, fire. betrayal, a mind. a altogether. packed, Leon's a applause. speeches, dancing. blue. "Now father, dad?" room. boy's face. lap. said, "Remember always. I I didn't anymore. mother's egg.

"I born, brother, Janice. promise."

"That necessary. dad. I couldn't a father. I you." record. I Janice. I bags. time, can't slip"
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had. a lawyer. a made. evening. office. didn't smoothly, congratulated, events. home. arrived, wasn't a a eat. a house. wouldn't all. didn't all. Incorporated. steadily, a company. mentality. a they'd a too. portfolio.

look. was. A her. "I'm home." slurred.
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' S8 z3 M7 E# V, @. n! {"I notice." dryly. "Off you. Tomorrow, a day."

"Not you've duty." undress. "Just table, couch, I me." her, "That's happen. I've ill. you." herself. a mind. it. indescribable a hole. now. a himself, numbers. finished, arm. a tap. precise, one, away. a call.
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# h; i0 |& z6 G" V"Leon, time? urgent." phone. answered, "I'm a a bind. ago. a skunk, I her. then..."
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$ k# ]- A6 @9 q" Y7 R" `" MLeon's in, out. "I'll over. hour." calling, "Leonard!"

+ q2 o5 S. q7 y& Z7 F' p" f"Over bathroom. first. bed." bed. born. upset. bathroom. heaven. tiles, gagging. "Hi," said. "Not a evening, you?" man.
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; D8 H5 l9 \9 N2 l( K; N- `"Don't started. I I undressed. I'm her. I'm I wrong." didn't suggested, "You go. I'll here, a something?"
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  g. I. k; L1 @4 }2 o"Good idea, I'll a bag. Janice?"

"Yes?"

"I you." a forward, arms. her, weak. him, him, a lips. a in. Glenda's products, world. kiss. Leon's couldn't Leon's buttocks. satisfying. wasn't gym. swimmer's body. a remembered. a fat, insulation. her. Glenda, a her, jealous. panting. whispered, "This a come. a fact, I married. I've a row. I'll a dinner. I served. Carrie." morning. sun.

Damn, didn't curtains? bed, couldn't here.
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# O9 i  i% A+ \" U! SThat's bad. me. a a a headache. time. up, time. Eleven?
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: `# N( Z# |' d0 X8 AShit, Work! I've call. complaining. paracetamol. corner. asked, "Why here? Leon? "
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# `8 T7 x& e  o8 J. J"Leon I presume, babysit. I'm evening. table."
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8 \( U% Q7 J/ U: Q4 U3 w, j" n4 E"Is angry?" anxiously.
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Janice, lie, replied, "You idea. He's angry." left. a kitchen. garden. a smell. from? a a terrace. animal. contents.
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OMG! mad. I crow, coffee, excuses. leave. Leon. mail. secretary. "Sorry Mrs. Daltree, a colleagues, they're a, "Off Room'. a locker, them." Glenda. a lie. emergencies, Glenda's didn't emergency, her. more, him. sighed. evening. she'd a behavior. Monday. a drinks, intoxication. mirror. Friday, it. a blur. meantime, having. evening, over. a message, woman, a scarce. a drink, phone. a movies. present. gesturing. inside. man. inside, Ian. a accent, "We don't else's wife, you. husband's developments. Oh, don't like. her. That's Police. Then, we're you, you." didn't a time.
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; d9 L' T1 H8 e1 i2 ?2 Z" iGlenda, a again, restaurant. A reservation.
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"My a Daltree. I'm right." answered. beamed, "Oh, course. see, Daltree. agenda. "Ah, go. me." table, a drink. husband. time. man. God, right, thought. a himself. enthusiastically Leon. "Good professor, a Saturday. It's tonight. I a drink? jenever. a tonight, it. It's Zuiddam? I think."
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"That applejack?"
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3 U: G1 ^! {9 f"Certainly professor." confused,

Professor? Saturday? happened? hesitantly, "Why professor, what's a speech?"
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"Because I a now. Doctor, I Short." head. looked, husband, "What say?" repeated, "My Doctor, I Short. deaf?" outside. drinks. said, "Splendid. glass." drink. a sip, spirit, sighed, "Just I Peter. bill. Ahh, minute. I'll her. dessert."
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A again. "There denying, there? known?" I'm a I syphilis, B D. STDs. So, that? barebacked. Dammit." Ian. her! loss. there, thinking. I all. a available. plate. appetite. Leon. over, a camcorder, Glenda, "Are ?" voice, "Yes I am."

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Janice, a Short. "We've man. him. a time, phone. now. us. We're now.

"I again, all, a mamba." dead. a moment. a a with. said, "With me.
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"A hospital. alone. espionage. call. it. back. for, go.
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later. separated, judge, a a denomination, counseling. reconciliation clear. would, secretly, wasn't couldn't energy. tenacious.
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, t& I: ?7 p9 w9 n2 Coffice, "Leonard Daltree, afternoon." hesitantly, "Dad?" wrong. "Hi Carrie, what's dear?"
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"It's mum. She's ill, ill. over? place, please?"
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"I she's dear, her?

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in, room, wife. a pallor, skin. eyes, eyes, hair.

"What you?" Bewildered, asked.
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"Sit dad, urged, "I'll details. us, please." a 'almost '
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"After served, a STDs. STD's a health. a two, patience. a opinion. a liver. aggressively, Immunotherapy. Hospital, a months. mother, "Over mum." started, "My husband. I I've twice, I asshole.
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' x  b/ w! }4 d& X  v3 C" ?"That a life. A came, hell. buddies. So, he's a time," surprised, "Couldn't a guy. I can't I'm sorry, bruises, drunk. I that. no, I didn't that." thinking,
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3 j9 f8 o. O4 n) F3 L5 g' _6 nI I a Janice. spoke, "And so, I especially." chuckled, "Though a months, most. I treatment. can't chemo, therapy. metastasized, I bad: euthanasia, that's possible, I'll drinking.

$ o. L8 b/ J/ P$ u, d$ B"I though. proceedings? I don't it, I a you'll well." asked. "I'll that. I wife? have, I want. record: I widower. I you."
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" |% Q' z: R/ f9 Y, y8 ^1 uCaroline, way, interfered, "Dad, it's care. mum, I a a money. half, us."

$ {" O; i, x$ I8 u' H" u# f"I don't money! It's me, I'm her. don't all? I don't it."
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"See, I so. you're him." said, "Dad, me, she's not. you, it.

7 s' l5 K2 ^& J8 T' G4 V2 _. D"Another she's money, it." a time, Glenda, daughter, caved.
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Glenda's shallower. mother. a a soul.

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' ~& a' _* p. w. Klater, hospital. Alone. everything. Short. him. lips, asked, "It's done?"

8 W: O& ^2 L: k8 Q+ ?"Yes. It's done. I life, I down. me."
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0 u2 w2 Z' h4 j' }; fLeon's around, him. "You've years. I'm words. that, I can't anymore, so.... me?
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Janice's houses. "You me. YES! I'll you. I can't you. Now, a celebration. bed, mine, love?" END,