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MANNY CARRIED PUMPKIN TO HIS BEDROOM. Of course, it was amidst protests of being too heavy, being too silly, being too much. He wanted to wipe that inner dialogue from her brain and replace it. Replace it with expectations of being held, and supported.
He laid Pumpkin down on his bed. Her brown skin shimmered gold on the black sheets.
The sight caught him. He looked at her eyes. Those eyes that had ducked away from his as she proclaimed herself a lesser character in the story of their lives. He leaned down and kissed each one, wishing that she saw this Sight. That she felt the certainty that he did.
He ran his fingers over the mouth that cast forth words that stumped him, that challenged him. He leaned down and laid light kisses at each corner.
Manny undressed quickly. He grabbed a
