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I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
LA
California
Saws
Blood
Death
Thought
Become
Live
Love
World
Exists

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