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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Skins
Triangles
Understood
Item
Clothes
Slippery
Food
Grapes
Littles
Items
Little
Dating
Peeled
Every
Staying
Undressing
Would
Skin
Grape

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