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He Listened From Behind the Curtain

What efforts appeal to his need to be loved She answered none This to the surprise of Those gathered Even those in lesser Standings have more Appeal then he His lessons of. Reasoning Makes him conditioned To appear wise His lack of passion Comes from his inability To be wanted, only a foolish Person who needs might find Him desirable Making it less likely for him To have person with those He desires to be with Spiteful and mean said The woman listening Spiteful and mean indeed Yet an effective strategy He'll never know how it feels To desired, wanted or craved Might he beg and she allow Him to take person with her I allowed him to be my fiance for Six years, appealing to his desires To be with me, I told another If he finds someone who is Worthy of conversation I would marry him immediately He found none for which there Weren't any and I was bored And wished those who thought They knew everything to be seen As wrong his friends instructed me Against him and even made it so I could see others against his all-knowing He spoke of love and God I would Laugh at him and made affairs With those he favored to spite him From the Book "Charmller listened behind the curtain" A tale of a wealthy man who's wife hated him. He seemed revenged against her by impreganting her mother who agreed to do so in fear her family would be poor. When the daughter born to Mother wished to go to university the sister asked Why the father didn't foot the bill, thinking one of the Pub fellas had been father to her sister, an angry Mother revealed her. Secret and told her eldest daughter why.

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