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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Simon Van Booy

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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Suffocate
Absence
Built
Find
Without
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People
Smothering

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