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You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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