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Jacqueline Draper

Mal de Ojo (Evil Eye)

January 16, 2015April 17, 2015 by toughgirl

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These days I can’t think of my husband’s eyes without the veil of blood over my own. Those days I straddled my sanity and the dead bodies of countless bastard children.

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