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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
Alexandra Bracken
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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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