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I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Become
Doe
Way
Unlovable
Possible
Asks
Born
Girl

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