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I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing

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Darynda Jones
Age: 59
Author
Novelist
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Friona
Texas
Make
Walks
Upright
Stills
Crawling
Still
Losses
May
Exit
Wells
Esteem
Well
Loss
Self
Cutting
Demoralizing
Enough
Walk
Hasty

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