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Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

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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
Smoke
Wasn
Wanted
Enough
Inhale
Leather
Sweetness
Breathing

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