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I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 63
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
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LA
California
Life
Needed
Lilies
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Ran
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Desert
Littles
Clouds
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Deserts

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