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Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

Anna Godbersen

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Waste
Terrible
Girl
Right
Things
Time
Love
Lovers

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