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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
LA
California
Little
Creatures
Much
Lived
Deserts
Life
Needed
Lilies
Wasn
Slept
Free
Ran
Wish
Creature
Girl
Desert
Littles
Clouds

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