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Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Heart
Dignity
Diana
Good
Couldn
Sand
Move
Beach
Bedraggled
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Possibly
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