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I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

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
Sometimes
Step
Basements
Every
Steps
Investigate
Like
Stupid
Hears
Goes
Blonde
Movie
Anyway
Alone
Noise
Felt
Smell
Around
Horror
Basement

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