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March 30, 2013

The Fever by ~everystupidstar

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Published: Jun 21, 2012

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I need to write more fiction....Surprisingly, this took only three hours to compose.

I don't want to mature content it, but I guess I have to.

EDIT: A DD! Thank you! I'm slowly working through replies giving llamas for thanks!

EDIT 2: A sequel

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