"I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started."

Childhood, Family, Memory, Affection

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"I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started."

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"Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do."

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"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."

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