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in the early hours of her late night her cappuccino skin turns more milk chocolate ocean waves pound outside her window asking instead for her to walk in as if she were the one knocking but everyday she dawns on a yellow bikini contrasting her now darkening body growing from twenty four to twenty five percent cocoa after five days four in full sun i ask to see and she shows me her bra and panty tan lines

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