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Those little arguments made his day.

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They are already untangling themselves from each other.

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Set her free. Why should she sacrifice her second chance for yours?

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And yet you can't help but feel a sense of desperation clinging to it.

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Squelching one person into another.

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You get the distinct sense she's about to confide something to you. But at the cusp, she retracts the words and puts others in their place.

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Trying to shrug off the shrill taunts, kicks against toilet stall doors and scribbled lines on cracked walls that take root as undeniable truth.

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Real now -- once and for all.

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He is exactly like you.

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Pure heartbreak. Look at his face. Look what you've done.

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A strange look passes across his face, followed by laughter.

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You really should have more faith in yourself.

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Somehow, he looks more forgotten than when you first found him.

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This woman, whoever she is, clearly means the world to him. Probably part of the reason you've found him how you've found him.

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Agony breaks the surface. This man is an alcoholic, recently shoved off the wagon.

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Half of him half believes it.

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Touching. The kind of bond only two pigs can share.

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He really isn't.

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A joke. They don't care about 'winning'.

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Portofiro has been like this since before they were born. They can't remember a different world -- but the song brings it to them.

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What can't be forged: The surge of all-engulfing sadness you feel as your hand rests on the page.

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Apologise to Eszti's husband.

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Not her business, not her problem.

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It is, but only in the saddest, most mundane of ways.

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Whatever makes him weep, it's not from the past year -- it runs much deeper.

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Yana is her own person now. You don't need to betray her trust just because Ramses picked up on some speech patterns.

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He wishes you hadn't asked him that.

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He's never going to let you forget that you alone came out unscathed the last time.

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Pay close attention to what you find in here -- it clearly holds deep significance for your troubled friend.

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A stab of pain in some unknown psychic organ.

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She recognises no neighbours -- only potential threats.

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A deeply off-putting answer, she thinks.

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'Don't do it. If you do, I won't recognise you anymore.'

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'Don't do it,' her voice says. 'If you do, I won't recognise you anymore.'

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Tonight while he lies in his squalid bed, he'll recite it to himself like a prayer.

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This still carries some weight with him.

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A psychologist would probably call this a side effect of being the object of violent loathing from birth.

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One of the few people he can call anything close to a friend.

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Nearly two decades gone, and he's still making his home in a cinema: a love that's never died.

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Probably thinks you're a strip-o-gram.

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Impressed and terrified by the lengths you'll go to to get what you want.

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He is 100% stealing the imagery of his beloved's freakouts to use in a music video some day.

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So far, his curiosity hasn't got the better of him. Not if would mean hurting her.

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This moment, it's important to him. A re-kindling, maybe -- finding warmth among ashes grown cold.

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'Did she just abandon us?'

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You feel the warmth of shared blood and smokes, in the aftermath. Heartbeats humming in tandem; every small, defiant smile its own flag.

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To redeem the failures of your past.

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The fresh wound splits back open.

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Bags under his eyes, tense shoulders. Yes, this man is very, very tired of it all.