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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
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Ideas
Trying
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Stretches
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Sides

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