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Well, if you weren't flirting with him-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-who was he, and what did you want with him anyway? If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home. Astrid sighed carelessly, What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress.

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Voice
Weren
Plaintive
Home
Grown
Astrid
Littles
Dress
Carelessly
May
Anyway
Sighed
Little
Dresses
Flirting
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Determined
Bore
Well
Shame
Bores
Pretty
Wearing

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