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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Tear
Build
Tears
Poetry
Inspirational
House
Like
Hatchet
Heartbeat

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