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She knows what seduction is, because until the night she lost her virginity-a night she had waited for a long time after many nearmisses, several broken dates and a few broken hearts-she had thought what most people think, that seduction is something dishonest and dangerous, sultry and tawdry, slow and cautious, but really it's none of those things, for as she learned, the most important part of a seduction is the removal of fear-that instinctual safeguard without which one feels perfectly secure, safe as a hatchling nested deep in downy feathers, for that is exactly how she felt when he-he who is only significant by the fact that it was he who seduced her, finally, that night in the hotel bar where she sat waiting for someone she didn't know would be him-pulled her hand gently until she was near enough to feel his warmth, and he pressed the backs of her fingertips to his fly as if to show her it was nothing dangerous, the way they let small children touch snakes in a zoo, with a care and deliberation that says 
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