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How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
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Away
Else
Place
Someone
Certain
Things
Love

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