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If you don't know Sonya, your first impression of her will be that she comes from a particularly prominent family of college cheerleaders. With tanned skin, blonde hair, and an athletic figure—she has the perfect balance of toned and curvy. But she didn't get her body by swinging pom-poms at football games, gentlemen. She relies on fencing. It relies on "stabbing" competitively. She has a talent for this. That's how we met—she transferred to our university from overseas as an exchange student and joined the fencing team her sophomore year. Men and women compete separately but train together, and I'm happy to say that I fell in love with Sonia the first time she was stabbed in the sternum with the point of her sword. She defeated me without missing a beat, then took off her helmet and shook out her long, wavy hair. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.