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Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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LA
California
Young
Spell
Everything
Glamour
Even
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Believe
Pretending
Myth
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