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Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Loves
Beginning
Couldn
Novel
Read
Understand
Felt
Diana
Novels

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