Her cheeks are tinted pink, and she rolls her lips together, “I know that’s really old school and archaic, but it was basically drilled into my head growing up that I was to save myself for marriage. And after some things happened in my life… I decided to repurpose it. It’s now a promise to myself to make my own choices with my body, my life. To never let anyone decide those things for me. Not that it really applies any longer, but to give myself to whoever I wanted without guilt or consequence.” Carefully she slips it off her finger and tilts it, “I got this phrase inscribed on the inside the
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