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You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
Paullina Simons
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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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St. Petersburg
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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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Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.
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And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.
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And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.
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