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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Former
Please
Boys
Think
Thinking
Defend

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