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I Make Such Big Efforts To Forget Things And I Can't Tell The Story Of My Life Because, Thank God, I'm Still Living It.

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I Make Such Big Efforts To Forget Things And I Can't Tell The Story Of My Life Because, Thank God, I'm Still Living It.

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