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I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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Texas
United States
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