As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was — Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was — Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was — Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was — Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was — Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
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As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

— Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
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