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Ali May

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Love on time

Ali May

Submitted to Contest #49

I fell in love with you when I was eight years old. You had no clue whilst you braided my hair, sat on that old, round kitchen table, that you'd be sentencing yourself to a life of being the sole focus of my attention and the only occupant of my heart. You see, I fell in love with you at a time when girls are supposed to love boys, and boys are supposed to love girls. I knew this, so as time passed and our limbs stretched into the awkward constraints of the adolescent body, I tried to convince myself that you were in love with me too. I woul...

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