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Pain can give you sight or make you blind.
Francesca Lia Block
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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.
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She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
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