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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

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David Deida
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: March 18
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Live
Aggressively
Pressed
Pulling
Fears
Kissing
Lips
Neither
Back
Violating

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