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It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.
Ann Aguirre
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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
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the United States of America
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A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.
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They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.
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He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
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Caring too much could be dangerous I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
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My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong I fed it to keep it running.
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He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.
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Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.
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I wanted proof, not promises.
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