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That's when I saw the email from

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The email with her picture

The picture that made me hard

Subject: Come back

Sender: Hannah Catalano

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Time: 11:15 PM

Matt, hey I really hope you read this You haven't replied toto you

I can't stop thinking about what happened

I h WoW (I'm a refores He's a really bad writer It was really bad Then we started dating long distance and I used to do things with hi you this stuff, except that I want you to know that what happened between us isn't nor off turnedhi out here on Thursday to helpin with uess the point is, we'll be on the road for two or three days and I'll only be online onoff to Hannah's picture like a desperate juvenile, I must have reread her email three times I mentally filed the new information

Hannah has a sister

Hannah is twenty-seven

Hannah is leaving her boyfriend

Hannah liked helpingabout it and it turned her on

And now she had a face and a name, both of which I expressly asked never to know

Hannah Catalano

So she was Italian That explained the knockout figure and the dark, heavy hair

I logged onto Skype

NightOwl: Hey

LittleBird: Hey! That was quick, lol I sent you an ehtOwl: Don't I know it

LittleBird: Haha

NightOwl: Let's get one thing straight Hannah I'et off with your rudimentary descriptive skills, so letIt definitely does not mean you can now assault htOwl: Use your words

LittleBird: You are such an asshole right now

NightOwl: You say this like it's news

LittleBird: It's news to one for a few days We WERE telling a story together basically every day, but since you haven't replied to htOwl: It's not off Don't get all hyperbolic on me Hannah However, let's pause and consider the distance between 1) tellingyour nahtOwl: Yes, shocking but true Our ate my wish to preserve mutual privacy No full names, no pictures, etc

LittleBird: Wtf I didn't send you htOwl: Okay

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I rolled my eyes and sat back in my chair Maybe I had been a little harsher than necessary, but I got uing eous and forced me to know it

Soine Hannah as a fat pier on the internet Anything but that dark-haired beauty blowing a kiss at me with her pink, pouty lips

Five

I fiddled with the desk calendar

NightOwl: Do you have anything to add to that stirring articulation?

Nothing

I opened my email, then opened Hannah's eed Gone was the tiny portrait of Hannah Catalano, replaced by a purplish swirl of galaxy and stars

Panic chilled alaxy and it took alaxy

Already I couldn't rehtOwl: What the fuck You just changed your account picture? You do realize I have already seen it

LittleBird: Matt, I a to believe me, but this is the truth I emailed you froht noant to die I would never infringe on your boundaries like that God, everything's been so insane in my life lately I orried I'd scared you off I sat down to write you an ehtOwl: Oh

LittleBird: Yeah, I I'ht you did it on purpose Obviously Wow

LittleBird: No, I would never I swear I love writing with you I respect your privacy Or I try to

I frowned and considered the words on my screen It was an accident And thanks to my overblown reaction to that accident, I had lost access toe search on Hannah Catalano

Nothing

NightOwl: Do you even want to knohat I thought?

LittleBird: What you thought?

NightOwl: Of how you look

LittleBird: Oh UhtOwl: Doesn'tdeal I'htOwl: Well, in that case, you'll be pleased to know I barely looked at it It was a tiny picture and as soon as I realized what it was, I closed the

LittleBird: Oh okay

NightOwl: Yeah And thanks for changing it so promptly I appreciate that

LittleBird: Sure So I should probably get back to packing

NightOwl: Mm Good luck with that I'll reply to your post soon