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Being lit from within.
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It is obsessive, it is glorious, it is everything that we’re put on this Earth to feel, all at once.
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When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
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