"Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has."

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Source : Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

Sonya Sones

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