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I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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St. Petersburg
Moments
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Stumbled
Life
Flicker
Blinded
Brief
Stupidity
Eternity
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Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
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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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Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.
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Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.
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Thank you, she whispered, for keeping yourself alive, soldier. You're welcome, he whispered back.
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