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This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Make
World
Gemma
Pull
Worse
Says
Better
Live

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