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i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.

Alexandra Adornetto

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Alexandra Adornetto
Age: 32
Born: 1992
Born: April 18
Author
Novelist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Alexandra Emily Adornetto
Alexandra Grace
Inside
Tightening
Lying
Swore
Felt
Squeezing
Around
Wrapping
Feel
Snakes
Feels
Lungs
Heart
Air
Slithering
Like
Lies
Constricting

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