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I knew i shouldn’t have done it. But that hadn’t ever stopped me before. Before I could stop myself the words just flew out of me. “She did IT!”
the gasp wasn’t audible…but the vacuum caused by what i had said permeated every corner.
faster than it had begun, the network of whispers and flying fingers communicated my gaffe and her triumph to the rest of our graduating class.
Laughing, she smacked me and tauntingly said, “did what?”

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