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There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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