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"What happened to the kid?" Michael whispered and Nora pulled her eyes away fro sky

"What kid?"

Michael raised his head off her lap and sihed heavily

"Oh, that kid"

"I don’t talk much, but I do listen"

"Too da without joy orshe ever wanted to talk about "You really want to know?"

Michael nodded

"Maybe it’ll distractabout Griffin" Michael sat up and pulled his knees tight into his chest

Poor thing…love shouldn’t have to hurt thiswhat blasphemy such a sentiment was in their world Would she ever knohat love without pain felt like? Did such a thing even exist?

"I enty-seven," she began, turning her eyes back to the setting sun "And so in love with your priest I couldn’t see straight But for a long tiuess is the best word for it I hung out at Kingsley’s a lot in my twenties--it was the only place your priest and I could really be ourselves together You reuy who carinned "Won’t ever forget that guy"

"That guy owns New York At least the Underground parts of it He’s got the hottest submissives, doms and dominatrixes in the world on his payroll They’re in and out of his town house all the time And I would watch the dominatrixes and just stare at them They were so beautiful, so powerful Even the ave the and in charge But when youI ached for what they had Don’t getto your priest It fulfilledelse But it never fulfilled"I guess I don’t have a dominant bone in my body"

"You don’t I’ a switch is no party The doet you Just being one thing or the other would be so si bisexual Best of both worlds Worst of both worlds"

"Tell me about it"