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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

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by Maile Meloy
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  • Jul 9, 2009, 240 pages
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  • Jul 2010, 256 pages
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But she wouldn’t. That was the thing that made him ache. He buttoned his jeans and shifted his hip. He had wanted practice, with girls, and now he had gotten it, but he wished it had felt more like practice. It was getting colder, and he would have to go inside soon. He fished her phone number out of his pocket and studied it a while in the moonlight, until he knew it by heart, and wouldn’t forget it. Then he did what he knew he should do, and rolled it into a ball, and threw it away.

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