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Lucinda...
It was a hot summer's day in Sydney, Australia. On her fiftieth birthday, Lucinda Nettlebeck was outside for the first time in months, luxuriating in the feeling of the soothing sun on her pale skin.
After months spent in bed due to a work related back injury, followed by surgery and intense rehab, Lucinda couldn't wait to get out into the fresh air, and chose a quick stroll down her street as a birthday gift.
Moving slowly on a cane, Lucinda's shoulder length hair was a messy mix of grey and brown after months without a home dye job. Her small frame, meanwhile, was weighed down with way too many extra kilos courtesy of extended bed rest and zero exercise. Still in pain, Lucinda was certainly not at her best...but she was overjoyed to be back on her feet again.
Though the sun and trees were a delight, the greatest sight came at the end of Lucinda's street. In the front garden of a large, vintage home stood a tall, unfamiliar man who looked to be in his twenties. Wearing just a cowboy hat and a pair of tight denim shorts, the bare chested young man's enormous muscles bulged and popped as he rammed a shovel into the obviously hard ground.
Single for five years after her previous relationship had ended horribly, Lucinda looked on with quiet but overpowering lust as she watched the young man's biceps stretch and strain with all of the physical effort required of him.
Lucinda indulged in the way the rock-hard muscle of his smooth, hairless chest and his deeply ridged abdomen reverberated as he slammed the shovel into the ground again and again. The young man's handsome, chiselled face was soaked sexily with sweat.