"Just so you know, we don't do anything to the kids, we just sell them."
The human trafficker didn't live long enough to catch the mistake in his wording.
The human trafficker didn't live long enough to catch the mistake in his wording.
Her grandson's first coding project had a syntax error on line seven, and she sat beside him for three hours not fixing it, asking questions instead, until he found it himself.
But when you brought us out of storage to your new place, and even kept us by your side while you slept, we knew you'd never forgotten us.
It hurts to part with him, but I know she needs him more.
Neither of them mentioned it, which was how they'd always preferred to agree.
Feeling so good today... everything is going so great I can't even express ❤️
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Thirty seconds later, my phone buzzed: “Love you… but my reputation was on the line 😭”
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Today, I caught myself humming for no reason — and for once, it finally was.
It may be a sin for us to love, but at least the devil will reassure me I already say heaven.
What they didn't know was that he'd lost his last forty deliberately, one loss at a time, choosing men who needed the purse more than he needed another victory.
...my opponent didn't show up to let me win
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Today, for the first time, she didn't look at my lawn; she only looked at the joy on Milo's face as he waited for me, and she gave me a genuine smile.
The Earth still loves us. Despite all the damage we do to it, it still takes care of us.
My example: I’m from a small southern city in Ukraine, and we used to see snow maybe for two hours a year. Sometimes for two days, but on different days. Basically, during all my conscious childhood, we didn’t really have snow in winter.
But after the full-scale invasion, it was March, and we didn’t have enough water. We would have run out of it if, for the first time in six years, it hadn’t snowed for a week and a half.
We collected that snow and boiled it over a fire so we could have water.
After that, for a long time, water was flowing through the pipes. Not the safest water, but during war you don’t get to be picky.
I never thought about it before, but it feels like the planet somehow knew and took care of its children, making sure we at least had water.
But you are the only one to ever notice my biscuits and loafs.
I’m looking forward to taking better-quality photos of nature.
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I let him in.
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As she laughed while yanking my blanket off, I realized that for her, the joy of nagging is the best gift I could ever give.
The chicken nugget she had been choking on flew out of her mouth onto the plate, and he comforted her, rubbing her back as she cried, her airway finally clear.