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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Goddamn
Sane
Exist
Would
Love

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