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Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

Paullina Simons

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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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Writer
St. Petersburg
Another
Swallow
Body
Solace
Find
Shattered
Railed
Hostility
Battled
Flood
Sobering
Unable
Awash
Bodies
Strand
Despair
Strands

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