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would make love in all the ways she described.
He would be the man to finally satisfy her. He would be the man she wanted above all others. It would be his name she said over and over again, on a whisper, on a moan, on a scream.
Jerald, Jerald, Jerald.
He shuddered, then lay back, spent, in the swivel chair in front of his computer.
He was eighteen years old and had made love to women only in his dreams. Tonight his dreams wer only of Desiree.
And he was mad.

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