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All In The Value Essay

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All in the Value
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Tumultuously fumbling past the door, they ignored everything as their legs crashed against a side table; their lips hardly left each other as they settled in the warm apartment. She fumbled with the buttons on his shirt and he could not take his hands away from her hair. Excitement surged in their veins and taking a quick breath, Marcia and Wayan separated from each other, staring from their opposite ends of the couch.
She admired his ruffled shirt, wry grin, and the warmth that created by their art gallery date earlier that night. She smiled and said, “I think I love you”. He drank in her in all of her clumsy beauty and sighed back into a relaxed posture, buttoning up his shirt.
“Do you hear yourself?”
“What?”
“Your …show more content…

I’ve heard you express love whenever we hang out, when you say you love this or that.”
“When I say that it’s tangible, I mean that I can actually feel how you’ve abused it. And I don’t mean to hurt you at all! It’s just that, we’ve had a lot of fun the past few weeks, but this is something I’ve noticed about you. I think it’s interesting, because we haven’t really got to know each other emotionally. And I want to get to know you emotionally.” He ended his spiel with another smile. Marcia remained on the ground. She thought to herself for a moment.“I get it. I’m not sure if I agree with you, but I think I’ve noticed it too…” She pondered past exchanges with her friends; she constantly used the term ‘love’ to reassure her friends and to reassure herself. She did have a habit of saying that she loved a lot of things, no matter how commonplace something was.
But now that someone else acknowledged this trait of hers, she wanted to think about this possible problem, and adjust her behavior. “How about we table this discussion for now? Thank you for telling me— I think it’s something I need to work on my own.” Marcia paused a moment, and laughed hesitantly. “I take it back, then.” They settled down, less uninhibited, and decided to relax instead of doing anything else Wayan’s statement lingered in Marcia’s mind. She was worried about the sincerity of her actions, wondering, Have I really caused the value of my words to

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