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Pen pal in love

Rick Geary

Posted December 19, 1985

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The Idealization of Jessica Trump – winner of 1985 Reader writing contest

Love beat like dove wings in my brain. The choir in my stomach strained at the chorus. She gripped the steel arm of the turnstile in her velvet hand and pushed her way into the lobby.

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