[She tenses a fraction under his touch and an excuse or something like it jumps to her lips and then he holds out the CD. It's the most inexplicable thing, she doesn't even remember why he's giving her that at first, and then it doesn't even matter because she just takes a breath and suddenly she's crying—it's silent but her shoulders are shaking over this stupid little act of kindness, because she's been happy all day, painfully so, and now the rest is catching up, everything built up over the day and the past few weeks.]
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