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BUTTERFLY MAN
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waiting. She must submerge her cloying desire for him in liquor, in other men. One day when he would be off guard, when he would have forgotten her naive attempt to make him love her, she'd overcome him so tempestuously that he would never know how she had won her dearly bought victory.

She would wait.