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Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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Question
Asks
Always
Think
Thinking
Like
Kiss
Kissing

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