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Tatiana: Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this? Alexander: That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

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Paullina Simons
Age: 62
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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St. Petersburg
Foreplay
Alexander
Spend
Wasn
Days
Fighting
Two

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