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If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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