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I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
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New York City
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I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.
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