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"Look I'm not criticising you" I said putting my arm over his shoulder
to console him. I fully expected him to be irritated and push it away
but he didn't. "You don't understand, we all love you Nicky but you
seem so innocent!"
"What do you mean innocent! Innocent about what? Do you mean innocent
about why I've got a voice like a girl or, -- Oh I don't know just look
at me I'm so bloody weak and feckless compared with them. I can't lift
things like truck tyres even that small engine part this morning, they
all came rushing over to help me. It was nothing!"
The poor lad started sobbing in my arms as he lay his head on my
shoulder.
He had been told to move in with me only a couple of days previously as
the manager thought it would be ‘most appropriate'. This produced a lot
of comments at work but I had not protested. It would have made no
difference anyway. The truth was I secretly fancied Nickie.
"But look at me; I'm no strong man either, am I?" I said. "Honestly I'm
no more manly than you are physically. It's my big bum they are always
making jokes about. You see my chest I have no hairs, and my legs they
are just as smooth as yours. And look no knobbly knees on either of
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