"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

"Are we ever going to have a conversation about this?" Shelby asks Shane, the words filling in a calm silence as the two stand behind the pit wall at Road America, nursing morning coffee out of paper cups and waiting for the rest of the day to catch up with them.

( A conversation about what? )

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Shelby Manning Martin
Need For Speed OC
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