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g on me. Then I felt as angry with her as I did with Jack. How can you play with someone's feeling

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as telling her. Just so she could throw it back in my face. There are people, and maybe I am one, who deep down are not happy if the

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hreats of aggression. Instead, she made up a fairly believable story about my dereliction of duty. I had left Roy al

not true. I haven't been

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lus a heavy bag with all of my dirty clothes. I was wearing an old

pletely alone in the dark. Then my phone rang, but w

our body and I was on the point of jumping and letting m

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me know how you are doing. I’ll

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walked and walked. I was so tired that ended up stumbling with a rock and falling. I

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felt sorry for me and let me sleep there for two nights. He

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