i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how …

Francesca Lia Block
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i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't. ✨ Francesca Lia Block (2009). Wasteland, p.4, Harper Collins
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i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't. ✨ Francesca Lia Block (2009). Wasteland, p.4, Harper Collins

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