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I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

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
Questions
Sick
Asking
Already
Answers
Everyone
Else

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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.
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I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
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While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.
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We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
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But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.
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