![]() “April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. “So then I’d give him all the love he deserves for what he’s done.” What would you like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?” To make it up to you, I’ll go out and buy you something else. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. ![]() What a fool I have been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. “Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?” There are time in a girl’s life when things like that are incredibly important.” “I’m not sure that has anything to do with love,” I said with some amazement. ![]() And I say I don’t want it anymore and throw it out the window. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. ![]() Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. “I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. She watched the rising smoke for a while, thinking. “I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in elementary school at the time - fifth or sixth grade - but I made up my mind once and for all.” ![]()
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