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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Sex
Peace
Blissful
Also
Communion
Sometimes
Weapon
Required
Establishment
Absence
Weapons

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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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