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I freeze at the crossing, not because of the cold, but at how a stranger walks.<\/p>\n

Even the musculature of her legs reminds me of Sandy. For a moment her profile ensnares my heart. Then she looks in my direction, questioning without expecting an answer. She doesn\u2019t break stride.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d made a pact to run away together: escape doldrums and parental tyranny…to find adventure in The City. We\u2019d agreed to rendezvous here. I\u2019d been waiting more than an hour.<\/p>\n

I set off alone, annoyed when her name escaped my lips; and admonished myself that I never really knew her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I freeze at the crossing, not because of the cold, but at how a stranger walks. Even the musculature of her legs reminds me of Sandy. For a moment her profile ensnares my heart. Then she looks in my direction, questioning without expecting an answer. She doesn\u2019t break stride. We\u2019d made a pact to run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1564,2692,5745,5102,5749,41,749,2837,3705,5746,3041,5747,2528,5750,2656,5748,3084],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-city","tag-cold","tag-crossing","tag-direction","tag-doldrums","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-legs","tag-lips","tag-musculature","tag-perry-mcdaid","tag-profile","tag-regret","tag-rendezvous","tag-stranger","tag-stride","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}