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Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Maybe
Spirit
Two
Soul
Kindred
Never
Mate
Mates
Spirits
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