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Ivan and Nor - Is There a Way to Have Sex?

i day dreamed about ivon all the time, imagining different conversations we might have. Nothing i knew about having sex corresponded to anything i thought about or wanted. If ivan tried to have sex with me, it was obvious that i would let him. Maybe he would be able to tell me what i had been doing wrong and it wouldn't be as terrible as trying to put in a tampon. At that point, my brain stopped being able to entertain the idea. It became unthinkable. Spetlana's trip to belgrade, her first since the war, had gone well. There had been only one moment at the store downstairs from her grandmother's apartment, when she dropped

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