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the girl took a long shower she scrubbed until her skin turned red under the too-hot water she scrubbed so she could feel clean again she scrubbed away his fingerprints and his warm breath on her neck but when she had scrubbed away her outermost layer and stepped into the cold air waiting to be the old her again she still felt wrong instead of clean she was raw every inch of her skin fire, every nerve ending feeling too much she climbed back into the water she started again she scrubbed so she could feel the same as before the time never came
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 3:14 AM UTC
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the girl took a long shower she scrubbed until her skin turned red under the too-hot water she scrubbed so she could feel clean again she scrubbed away his fingerprints and his warm breath on her neck but when she had scrubbed away her outermost layer and stepped into the cold air waiting to be the old her again she still felt wrong instead of clean she was raw every inch of her skin fire, every nerve ending feeling too much she climbed back into the water she started again she scrubbed so she could feel the same as before the time never came
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 3:14 AM UTC
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