after a while
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“You might like defense more once you get used to it. Or maybe after a while you’ll get to switch positions.”
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“We were sitting really close to each other, crouched in behind this tree trunk. After a while he said, ‘So, everyone really wanted us to be alone together, huh?’
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“He’ll probably feel bad and apologize after a while,” she tells me.
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“It’s dumb to ask for a lot now,” she said after a while.
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My excuses to Jeff were pretty lame, too: I had to clean my room, move some plants, rake my grandparents’ yard … After a while, he stopped asking and did more things with Rich instead.
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