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The day was warm, but not unpleasantly so, and the shade helped. The two women wandered along, mostly oblivious to the stares they received from the occasional passing jogger or dog-walker. They made quite a sight. Two beauties: one with dark hair and pale skin, tall and lean, leggy but curvy, with a bosom like the figurehead of a ship, the other honey-blonde, smaller and slighter, with the quick and athletic stride necessary to keep pace with her taller companion's graceful lope. Popular with the exercise crowd, the path along which they wandered was crowded in the morning, but now, as the sun glided between scattered clouds low in...