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In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Heart
Kingdoms
Glass
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Glasses
Honesty
Dark
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Everything
Kingdom

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The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
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