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Photograph

A boy held a picture to his chest. He sighed affectionately and he pulled the picture away to gaze upon it again.
It was a picture of the most gorgeous and beautiful creature he’d ever seen. He gazed into her soft, glistening eyes and sighed again, smiling, just as she was in the picture. Her soft brown hair hung like strands of… strands of what? he thought. There was nothing to compare her beauty to, nothing to compare her kindness and compassion with. She is everything he has ever wanted, and at this moment he mouthed you’re all mine.. as he gazed into the lovely eyes of his significant other.

He stroked the picture with the back of his forefinger softly. The smile he’d been holding fell, and his eyes filled with an insatiable longing for her. She was all he wanted. No, she was all he needed. There she was in a photograph, but he wanted more than just that… so much more… He whispered quietly to himself, gazing into her eyes again, “We’ll be together sweetie… One day…”

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