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Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
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LA
California
Wind
Everything
Kisses
Cream
Ice
Chocolate
Kissing

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