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 Jasmine obeyed, relaxing as her boysfirsttime mind accepted the fantasy and forgot the reality. It was so much easier to be a boysfirsttime dancer, performing for an audience, than a frightened girl who somehow had to obey boysfirsttime a strange man.
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