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i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
LA
California
Skins
Afraid
Veins
Wouldn
Maps
Inside
Thin
Break
Drop
Might
Stopped
Like
Breathing
Skin

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