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It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

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Melissa de la Cruz
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
City of Manila
Thought
Shy
Stuck
Kept
Quiet
Wasn
Help
Helping
Didn
Painfully

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