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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
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Paris
France
Heart
Letting
Breathing
Caught
Afraid
Perhaps
Eyes
Eye
Lungs
Come
Lust

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