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fashionable way, but almost like she'd taken scissors

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shed with color as she

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the stop light,

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ll there. Maybe because she was a challenge. And God knew I hadn't

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my parents' car the night th

for making her ride in it. But it wasn't like I'd known. Damn it,

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never co

ecause I'd come from fame, money. I'd been born

dn't gotten

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as if to say, "So? Are you just going to stand th

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all, blue pig that I'd gotten from my very first commerc

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