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Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage when I smile folks check their wallets.
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You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.
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I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
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