Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -


Mercedes Lackey

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we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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