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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

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"She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie."
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