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All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I__ walked, the pain I__ felt, the beauty I__ drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I__ taken, would all add up to nothing. They__ be stolen. They__ vanish like the teeth children lose when they get hit. Only after the blood was washed away would I see that they were gone.
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All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I__ walked, the pain I__ felt, the beauty I__ drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I__ taken, would all add up to nothing. They__ be stolen. They__ vanish like the teeth children lose when they get hit. Only after the blood was washed away would I see that they were gone.
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