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Sure, they can talk up a storm, and they won't go two seconds without laughing, but when she talks to you, her voice changes. It's reserved and tentative, like she's holding herself back. She lets herself loose around him because she knows nothing will ever happen. But with you, she's too scared that something will. She has the time of her life with him, but it's you she wants to be with, and you that she won't ever have.

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