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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Peter De Vries

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Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
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Chicago
Illinois
Brain
Drowned
Another
Rubber
Reduced
Kiss
Bones
Kissing
Gruel
Turned
Gazes
Deep
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