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He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

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Brian Andreas
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 17
Artist
Painter
Writer
Iowa City
Iowa
Time
Decided
Stay
Relationship
Loved
Almost
Everything
Enough
Long
Adoration

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