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    My daug kno I o ty years before she was even born.

    S knoy ter,  and a large nose like hers.

    Even today, my skin is still smoot to , once so small and pretty! No t and flas sixteen, are noained, clouded.

    But I still see almost everyt to remember, it is like looking into a bo grains of rice you did not finish.

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    I became a stranger to myself. I ty for  slippers on my feet, it o c I kneimes a nigo bring luck to our marital bed, in hopes of conceiving a son.

    t ed t  tle boy in my  earlobes, and slick  rose o reveal a large forehead.

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    My arted to take