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Jared grabs his hand when they leave and doesn’t let go in the car.  “Hey Jen, remember that feeling when you first learned to drive, and how you have to get on the freeway scared shitless where there’s bumper to bumper traffic and you’re all the way over to the left and ya gotta inch your way over to the right for the exit, and you’re gonna miss it if you don’t start moving?” Jared pauses and then, “Or the cars are going like a hundred miles an hour and there’re huge trucks everywhere, but you still gotta merge?  It’s scary but you make the decision that you gotta do it, push your way through and make it over safe n’sound.  Well, that’s us.  I’m safe and you just gotta cross the lanes to get to me.

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