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Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.
Mary Gaitskill
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Mary Gaitskill
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 11
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