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Welcome to the lesbian romantic podcast. This is The Taste of a Smile, Part 13. Cap.

Mary knew that she should be absolutely thrilled to be in Washington, and yet here she was wishing she was somewhere else.

She had had a restless night and was almost nauseous from exhaustion.

She had woken up about three hours ago, around 2.30 a.m.

and hadn't been able to go back to sleep.

Images of the day before had kept flashing by, the busy hall at the train station,

Lux sniffing her coffee, the people in the hotel lobby.

The scene she kept replaying the most was the weird exchange

with the hotel clerk. Several things about it bothered Mary. For one, she didn't know if she should

be charmed or insulted by Lex's actions. Why had Lex insisted on getting a room that was

obviously below her usual standards?

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