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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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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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Writer
St. Petersburg
Night
Somewhere
Blanket
Shows
Dear
Sheets
Never
Wall
Pulling
Please
Thin
Knew
Hide
Teach
Turning
Show
Brown
Sheet
White
Bed
Prayed

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