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As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

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Simone Elkeles
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 24
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A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you, Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.
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Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
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Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.
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and the bananas are overdone.
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Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?
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Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
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