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I want a boyfriend - Sherry Ning

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It’s not just the wanting but the waiting, the long pull of days that stack upon one another like the dull, sweating hours of summer afternoons when the cicadas scream out their endless lament and the trees stand perfectly still in the heat, heavy with the weight of their own shadows. It’s in the knowing that the day will stretch on regardless, like gray ocean waves too sluggish to break into foam, with or without the company of someone who might sit beside me in the quiet of it all, who might lean back against the same bench and look out at the same parkscape and say something—anything—that…

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