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There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Anna Godbersen

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Scales
Envy
Mass
Pleasure
Like
Envied
Scale

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