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When you__e growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there__ something different about you. On one level, you know there__ something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.
Brooke Stevens The Circus of the Earth and the Air
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When you__e growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there__ something different about you. On one level, you know there__ something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.
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Brooke Stevens

The Circus of the Earth and the Air

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