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Chapter 10 - Shea
"Taste of life?" I ask?
"Yes, a little of everything. Sometimes the weirdest combinations make the best flavors. You need a little of everything to experience life at its best. You can't just expect to have the good stuff all of the time, sometimes you need the lows and the hard and the pain to appreciate the smoothness of the good things."
My stomach clenches with a swirl of emotions that I don't dare sort through right now. I take another drink, savoring the flavors as they hit my tongue, each one completely different but together, completely satisfying.
I think Rosie says something to us, but I am too caught up in the swirl of thoughts and emotions that I don't think I qui
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