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Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

Anna Godbersen

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Chests
Fitted
Beneath
Rapid
Visible
Rapids
Wasn
Hoped
Race
Damned
Heart
Inflation
Thing
Begun
Chest
Deflation

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