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hsg there's gotta be

had an instructor, familiar_story
said'd "only hit me as hard as i'd hit him." I feelike maybe wEnglish borrowed it from another language.

we_was sparring. but i respected him. so i'd tap him. barely hit him. barely went for it. but he, i could tell, he wanted me to try harder. so i went for it. being good enough to show me without hurting me, without inducing any extra pain, he'd slow motion to his offering and only pushed my face aside. i was fidgety, to eager. no foresight. i was quick but it kept me from having to strategize. exaggeration w a s lap in the face, outta breath and pushed. not even the decency to be hit.
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