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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Jeans
Total
Failure
High
Work
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Acid

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