Inside, there was a bed, and upon the bed there was a woman. More beautiful was she even than the damask rose while her scent, drifting through the open window, was that of the night dew. Her hair was silken as the raven's wing. Quite naked, she lay, so still upon the bed, her eyes closed in reverie.The young man looked first upon her breasts, where her hand rested. And upon each breast, there was a rosebud nipple. Upon each nipple there was a tip most tender. Upon each tip there was a milky drop. Chin lifted, lips parted, she milked her maiden breast.'What I would give to suckle at that teat,' thought he. from 'Against Faithlessness' in Cautionary Tales
You found it,_ she announced.I smiled, knowing what she meant. She and I__ had conversations since I was a small child about finding true love. She__ fallen deep with my grampa, who I hadn__ met, he__ died before I was born in a work accident, but she__ never sought out anyone else. She couldn__ imagine her life without him. She__ told me that some people could find love over and over but others found it once and it was so perfect, so __t_ that they__ never look elsewhere, even if they lost it. They__ had such good from it that they were topped up for life.
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You found it,_ she announced.I smiled, knowing what she meant. She and I__ had conversations since I was a small child about finding true love. She__ fallen deep with my grampa, who I hadn__ met, he__ died before I was born in a work accident, but she__ never sought out anyone else. She couldn__ imagine her life without him. She__ told me that some people could find love over and over but others found it once and it was so perfect, so __t_ that they__ never look elsewhere, even if they lost it. They__ had such good from it that they were topped up for life.
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