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“She looks worse than a pros-titute, he thought. She looks like a madam. He wondered if he still loved her. He took out his phone and reread all her texts again.
"I am very lonely and troubled. Who are you?"
She sounded desperate, he thought.
He had made a grievous mistake, he thought.”

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“He mumbled something unintelligible. He never knew what to say around her. Everything he wanted to say was
"You are beautiful" and "I'm in love with you." There was, in his mind, nothing else for him to say.”

On the bus home, he ate an ice cream and looked out the window and thought of his woman at the arcade and of what she might be doing at just that mo-ment, and his heart hurt.