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You have always been my only muse. I cannot paint or sculpt. I have only my words to render your likeness. Sometimes I wish I were both God and Adam so I could tear out my rib and create you from my own flesh. I would say I__ create you from my heart, but I gave that to you when you left me. But that__ a cliché, isn__ it? Sadly, that__ all I have these days. The whole story is a cliché. I desired you. I ate of you. I lost you. That ancient story _ older than the Garden, old as the Snake. I would have liked to call this story of ours The Temptation but the word temptation, once the province of pious theologians, has now been co-opted by every third second-rate romance novelist. And although I loved you, my beautiful girl, this is not a romance novel.
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You have always been my only muse. I cannot paint or sculpt. I have only my words to render your likeness. Sometimes I wish I were both God and Adam so I could tear out my rib and create you from my own flesh. I would say I__ create you from my heart, but I gave that to you when you left me. But that__ a cliché, isn__ it? Sadly, that__ all I have these days. The whole story is a cliché. I desired you. I ate of you. I lost you. That ancient story _ older than the Garden, old as the Snake. I would have liked to call this story of ours The Temptation but the word temptation, once the province of pious theologians, has now been co-opted by every third second-rate romance novelist. And although I loved you, my beautiful girl, this is not a romance novel.

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