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// A Tick Tock Heart 
// Story: Flash Of A Reflection 
// by Moproblems Moharmoney 
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It happened again.

I left home at the customary time, four thirty-eight pm exactly on the dot, to begin my routine grocery run.  As days went, this one had been particularly fruitful: three sales, one repair job, and my personal project gaining some high-grade arbors. A warm glow suffused me, one that even the confusing and contradictory residents of Ponyville couldn't miss. Yet when it happened they still left me. Ponies called me rude, but they abandon me.

It was the crowds. They shouldn't be there, and it all became overwhelming quickly. Fur and noise blended into a dizzying cacophony.  I'd been staring at my watch (double hunter, bronze wheels, custom steel pinions, copper engraved casing) for exactly eighteen minutes and twenty-five seconds, the steady motions making me feel calm. Then she arrived...the diamond dog.

"Are you ok, Wind Up?"

I think I'm in love.