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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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