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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Imagination
Pulled
Stars
Demon
Away
Lover
Live
According
Things
Apart
Awaiting
Lovers
Rent
Calling
Demons
Hair
Restless

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