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is when you make a decent chocolate cake for the person you love the most in the world and everyone eats it and loves it and then you decide...
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So I've just received my first ever blog award! Thank you Blue Mist ! I started following your beautiful blog only recently and really l...
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i think i love you the way i love cigarettes. i've smoked them as far back as i can remember. and i keep trying to give them up. i'm...
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about the first time you touched me. light and easy, with just your fingertip on my elbow. then that lingering gaze. the first time you put ...
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