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By Jack Joseph Smith
Yes, then let me have your hand while we walk to the trees.
She giggled saying, you say things so nicely.
And you say yes, so sweetly.
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This brief page turns tenderness into style, linking hand-holding, speech, and sweetness in a tiny exchange.
Its scale is miniature, but the effect is intimate rather than slight. The page shows how gently spoken language itself becomes part of attraction.
The cops come for a large vacated barn on Bowerhill Road; Michael confesses only to his father, naming the young poet and guitar player he never really got to know, and the father has to call the police because he has to.