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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Really
Love
Hurts
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