She has a Marilyn Monroe-like beauty mark above her upper lip, that prominent, crescent scar I bet she still doesn’t know the story of, and lashes so thick, they shadow her cheeks when she looks down. Positively lovely. The same way many women are. Many women I haven’t thrown my life away for. The idea that I’ve been sick with guilt over everything I hadn’t told her, everything I couldn’t say—promised not to tell her—makes me want to laugh now. Yes, I kept things from Aurora. But she went the extra mile and ripped things from me. Ask me what drew me to her in the first place that fateful day
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