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Forgive But Don’t Forget, Girl Keep Your Head Up. And When He Tells You You Ain’t Nothing, Don’t Believe Him. And If He Can’t Learn To Love You, You Should Leave Him.

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Forgive But Don’t Forget,

Tupac Shakur

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Forgive But Don’t Forget, Girl Keep Your Head Up. And When He Tells You You Ain’t Nothing, Don’t Believe Him. And If He Can’t Learn To Love You, You Should Leave Him.

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Picture Perfect, I Paint A Perfect Picture Bomb The Hoochies Wit' Precision, My Intentions To Get Richer.

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Everything He Wanna Have-i Got.

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