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No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?
Jeffrey McDaniel
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Jeffrey McDaniel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
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