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‘Yes. Yes. I am ready,’ I said. Unsure of what I was getting ready for. Something good. Something inexplicable. Something only now and never again. It was the fire of the final time. 

THE WIFE TOOK her sweet time in the ensuite shower. 

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Victor Guan Yi Zhou

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