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Simone Elkeles

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Simone Elkeles
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 24
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Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil.
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I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.
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Alex, Add it up. No matter how much you want her in your life, she doesn’t belong. A triangle can’t fit into a square. Just pointing out the facts” “Gracias” I don’t point out that if it’s a big enough square, a small triangle can fit inside perfectly. All you have to do is make a few adjustments.
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Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?
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Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days
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I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.
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the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .
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I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.
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The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.
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Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?
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When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.
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Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
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Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.
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One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.
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And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.
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It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.
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Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense. Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works. He says Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.
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Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.
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Being brave is not as easy as it looks.
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Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.
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