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...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise
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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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Emily Jenkins
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I like to be direct. Okay, I said. But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages. I doubt it. Human interaction is not my strong point, I told him.
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Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.
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