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"I should send her flowers"

Her hand rubs ive you another chance"

My brorinkles "No?"

"Nope"

"Then what did?"

She swings around till her head’s on my chest, and there’s not a breath of space between us

"Mackenzie"

"How’d she pull it off?"

"She told me a story about how you took her to Central Park last summer And a boy threw sand at her"

I remember that day I was just about to offer a six-year-old fifty bucks to dropkick the little fucker

"And then he came up to her and said he was sorry But she wasn’t sure if she wanted to play with hiain And she said that you told her that sometis So, once in a while, she should take pity on theive them a second chance Not a third or a fourth…but you told her that everyone deserves a second chance" She pauses And laughs "And then you told her if he did it again she should kick hiirls should kno to defend themselves A well-ai, don’t you think? If it wasn’t for ht now

"Maybe I should buy her two ponies"

Kate saze up atto her

"You have no sense of self-preservation, do you?"

I shake my head "No, not at the s her knee up aroundto hten around her "You already have After this? Heaven’s going to be a major disappointment"