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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Art
Cruelty
Light
Regret
Live
Sacrifice
Good
Choice
Time
Choices
Dark
Lying
Pain
Chiaroscuro

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