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Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Counselor
Alcoholic
Alcoholics
Guidance
Says
Perfect
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