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I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Walking
High
Hours
Geneva
Hate
Convention
Forbidden
Conventions
Heels
Eight

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