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She gained ten pounds of muscle the summer she worked in Alaska. She’d have that slight tone for the rest of her life – a glimmer when she flexed to stock shelves at Vons the next year or to take a turkey out of the oven or to climb a ladder or to carry her sleeping daughter fifteen years later. A flashing tight tendril of muscle in her triceps.
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Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM UTC
Muscle
She gained ten pounds of muscle the summer she worked in Alaska. She’d have that slight tone for the rest of her life – a glimmer when she flexed to stock shelves at Vons the next year or to take a turkey out of the oven or to climb a ladder or to carry her sleeping daughter fifteen years later. A flashing tight tendril of muscle in her triceps.
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Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM UTC
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