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No spinning, I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Beautiful
Dizzy
Take
Spinning
Enough
Warm
Heart
Close
Already
Wasn
Head
Sure

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