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Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
People
Open
Twists
Word
Clown
Space
Pale
Ends
Flames
Seems
Easily
Clowns
Right
Meaning
Tossed
Love
Close
Twist
Like
Afraid
Spaces

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