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I am enthralled. 10/10, total stunner

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Wait for part 2… 😇 x

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I can't wait.

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Perfect example about how to write about sex. Loved this. Plus the lyric sounds like "matters" And I have a Stevie jukebox in my head so i was playing the song!

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You’re very kind David, thank you. I also have Stevie on mental loop, nothing better 🤝

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Fantastic, Jill!

Also, can’t get Edge of Seventeen out of my head now. 🤣

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Sorry (not sorry 😅🕊️) thanks for reading Holly 🙏

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As well you shouldn’t be. It’s a terrific song.

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Whoa. absolutely incredible writing. CANNOT wait for the next installment. Sigh. Rob. What a thrill!

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Coming soon 😘🙏

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Thank you, Jill, for so brilliantly writing down what so many of us keep hidden inside. Yeah, Stevie Fucking Nicks. It was his break up with her that inspired Lindsey Buckingham to write "Go your own way," which of course I did. Sort of.

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Stevie Fucking Nicks 👑🙌

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Love the slow burn of this story. There is an explosion coming for which I cant wait. The almost indifferent tone of the reader is gripping. Love it!!

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Thanks Geoff 🙏

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Incredibly powerful writing Jill. Hooked

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🙏thanks Carlo

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This is so great, Jill. Period. Full stop. If you don’t get a 1000 likes on this, the universe is shit. What I mean to say is get ready for a good cry.

It is 2:45 in the morning here and I have several little thoughts that I think are fine little bookend additions to this, but, as I wrote, it is 2:46 in the morning and the opportunity for catastrophically disastrous comments about Stevie Nicks and fidelity are I’ll-advised.

They are not quite as funny as this, but you’ve done your work here and launched a 1000 comedians.

Great piece of writing. I would use the “bow” icon but my eyes are bad and I’m never sure if it’s a man or a woman and that is its own disaster.

🙇

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Genius. Best piece I’ve read all year. The story: riveting. The writing: exquisite.

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Thank you James! 🙏

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Well, I guessed the song...

And yes - it can't happen unless there is something wrong in the first relationship to begin with.

Great writing!

Best Wishes - Dave :)

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Thanks Dave 🙏 you got it 🎯

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Love your writing, waiting for pt.2💥💥💥💥💥

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Thank you Vanessa! 🙏 coming soon

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Delicious writing!

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Thank you Barbara 🙏

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Just wow. Jill spills the tea.

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This was like an absolute laser beam on point. round of applause.

Had an identical moment once, many years back, sharing a train journey with a work colleague. apart from the stevie nicks. After that, it was only a question of time.

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Sorry to read you "fucked up". Great story start as expected for your great writing skill but I’m not going to the next chapter.

I’ve seen it so often it would be a long line of excuses. Hopefully at the end there would be a realization of selfish discovery.

BTW, what Rob has is Charisma. My youngest son has it. He can walk into a room where he knows none and a half hour later there is a crowds around him enthralled with his pearls of wisdom while my older son, who is more intelligent and insightful, will be sitting alone.

The younger son has made millions from his charisma but to my knowledge has not used it to beguile women, at least as for what I now. They do, however, throw themselves at him.

If I'm reincarnated, I'm asking for a big dose of charisma and will forgo a lot of other stuff.

While you fucked up, acceptance is the start of recovery and learning of who you really are. You can't change the past but you can grow from it. that's what life is all about, learning who you are and to err is human.

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great story!

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Thank you Jaap 🙏❤️

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