My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality. For four years, thats what I believed. And I wasted all of my university daysduring which I had the most courage and honesty I would ever have towards lifebecause of it.
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