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You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Sequined
Spawn
Satan
Truly

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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.
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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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People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.
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