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I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
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Goodbye, I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.
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Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.
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Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.
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