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Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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