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It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Preserves
Purity
Keeps
Husband
Future
Sealed
Freshness
Preserve

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