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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Anything
Knee
Wanted
Rice
Things
Bricks
Time
Smiled
Acid
Lava
Knees
Spilled
Smile
Spill
Thousand
Spills

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