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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
Dark
Lying
Chiaroscuro
Pain
Cruelty
Art
Regret
Light
Sacrifice
Live
Choice
Good
Time
Choices

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