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My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

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
Heart
Lashes
Breaking
Loss
Longer
Point
Comes
Feel
Inured
Feels
Lash

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