Plus, I was a virgin, don't forget that, and all of this is why I'd never spoken to Anne Marie, even though we'd been in five classes together: Anne Marie was clearly much too beautiful for me to speak to.

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It should be said here that I hadn't told Anne Marie about my past, and right then I wanted to, badly: I wanted to tell Anne Marie everything about the Emily Dickinson House and how I'd burned it, accidentally, and the people I'd killed and by the way, it wasn't the first time I'd wanted to tell her such a thing.

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