Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.
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...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.
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