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I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
Paullina Simons
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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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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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Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.
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This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.
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Thank you, she whispered, for keeping yourself alive, soldier. You're welcome, he whispered back.
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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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Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
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