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I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
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Writer
LA
California
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