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Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

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
World
Mine
Beneath
Weight
Worlds
Please
Hardly
Stilled
Knew
Shouldn
Sank
Head
Breathe
Refrain
Wanted
Lips
Cant
Going
Touch
Daring
Like
Mines
Bent

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