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Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Intensity
Measure
Instructions
Mercy
Selective
Limits
Included
Strength
Vary
Ability
Blindness
Desire
Never
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