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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
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Texas
United States
Pain
Chiaroscuro
Art
Cruelty
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Regret
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Lying
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