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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Joined February 2017

Creator of #LitsyLove (an international pen pal group) “Somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty.” Wife, Mother, friend, book lover
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The Bright Years | Sarah Damoff
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Starting this one today!

This clematis smells heavenly! Like sugar, vanilla, and honey 🍯 💛

AnnCrystal Clematis look like Jasmine, how pretty 🤩💝. 3d
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It‘s almost my favorite time of the year! 🧡🍂🤎 The ber months are the best months! This year is really flying by!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our August photo challenge, #charactercharm! We love seeing your posts! We are looking forward to seeing your posts for #falling 🍁

Enjoy this autumn playlist!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54PME6LiMTlw9sJMLKptI1?si=0rI8AMpuT1WGnd8fmG0b...

wildwoodreads This sounds fun. I‘ve never actually participated though. Do you just post a themed photo each day? 2d
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These Summer Storms | Sarah MacLean
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I just can‘t finish this one… I should have dnf‘d 100 pages ago! I just don‘t care what happens to these characters! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

bookandbedandtea Yay for moving on! #Next 3d
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Finishing this one today! Another great day for reading on the porch ❤️💛 🏡

Mimi28 I like your cup! 4d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Mimi28 thank you 💗🖤 4d
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The perfect night for porch reading 📖 finally cooler!

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Fifty-Fifty | Steve Cavanagh
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I read this for a buddy read on facebook and it‘s my first by this author. A little predictable, but still good!!

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 💫

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Not Quite Dead Yet | Holly Jackson
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My library is very small with limited choices… they told me I needed to jump on right after midnight or they reach their daily quota quickly. I did and missed that this was the German audio 😳🤦🏻‍♀️ not sure why that‘s even a choice… 🤷🏻‍♀️

Melismatic Whoops lol 1w
AnnCrystal 🥺 I always had to be careful with language when ordering (back when I mailed ordered). Shouldn't language choices be pre-selected for your card or account?? 📚💝.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @AnnCrystal everything else has been in English so idk 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ 7d
AnnCrystal @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks strangely annoying 🥺📚💝. 7d
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#TOTD 💛

#STLB 📣

Eggs Truth! Yes that is a challenge🙃 1w
Bookwomble That can be a hard test! 1w
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AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 2w
LiteraryinPA I‘ve heard great things about this one!! 1w
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“All I do know is violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain. Hurt people tend to hurt people.”

#CharacterCharm
#Murderer

MaleficentBookDragon Love the photo! 2w
Eggs Magnificent photo👏🏻👏🏻 2w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs thank you 😊 2w
Read-n-Bloom The quote is so true! 2w
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These Summer Storms | Sarah MacLean
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“It‘s always worth leaving when someone doesn‘t want you to stay.” 💔

Reading this for a buddy read on Facebook 📖 this is the perfect end of summer book!

#DOTD hurricane party from Kajun Loaded Tea 🥤

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The People We Keep | Allison Larkin
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Starting this one for a buddy read! Really great characters so far! 💛🧡💛

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These Summer Storms | Sarah MacLean
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Lil Bit is the sweetest 🐾 💗

Starting this one for a buddy read! Really good so far!

⛈️ 📚 💴 💍 ✈️

#Catsoflitsy

Texreader What a cutie!!! That‘s a great picture! 3w
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 2w
Gissy 😻🖤🖤🖤 (edited) 2w
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These Summer Storms | Sarah MacLean
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Starting this one tonight! Probably my last summer themed read of the year! I‘m so ready for cozy, magical reads! 🪄 💫

AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 3w
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Maybe I will read this one soon for fall! 🧚‍♀️ 💫

Have you read it? 🪄

#Fairy
#charactercharm

Leftcoastzen Such a pretty photo! 3w
uncommonlycozies I wanna get into this world too! Be sure to share when you start it & I‘ll try to get it from my local library! 🤗 3w
Eggs Great choice and beautiful image! 3w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs thank you! 😊 3w
AnnCrystal Pretty book staging 🤩🧚‍♂️💝. 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @AnnCrystal thank you 😊 ❤️ 3w
BookBr I loved this one! 3w
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For all of you doggy parents out there!! 🐾 🐶

AnnCrystal 😂📚🐕💝. 3w
KadaGul Love it 💙🤣💛🐶🩵🐾 3w
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Take My Hand | Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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So ready for fall 🍂 🍁 🎃

#Nurse
#charactercharm
#TBR

Eggs …said the nurse 🩺 (the autumn nurse!) 3w
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Happy Book Lovers Day!! 📚📖📚

What are you reading?! ❤️📖

Julsmarshall Listening to The Bookclub for Troublesome Women and reading Chasing Shelter. Happy reading! 3w
AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🥳📚💝📚💝📚💝📚. 3w
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So true!! 🙌🏻

#TOTD
#STLB

julieclair Soooo hard to do! 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @julieclair it is… I just can‘t let other people‘s opinions bother me anymore. It‘s not worth my time and energy 😊 I sent you a book a few weeks ago! Just wondering if you received it 💛 3w
julieclair I did and thank you so much! 💙💙💙 We‘ve been traveling quite a bit and I discovered it in my held mail when I got home. A letter will be on its way to you soon. 😀 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @julieclair good deal!! I hope you enjoy it! 💛💛 3w
Eggs “To thine own self be true” 3w
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Always remember!! 🩷🩷🩷

***Image from facebook

Eggs 🩷 👠 🖤Thank you 3w
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One of my favorites 🧡 ✏️ 🐾 🧪

#Scientist
#CharacterCharm

Kshakal Great minds!! 3w
Eggs Great book 🧫🧪🧬 3w
Teresereading Great Minds... 3w
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💗🌺💗🌺💗🌺

#TOTD

#STLB

Eggs Great advice ✨ 3w
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Happy Tuesday!! I sure am going to miss my butterflies and zinnias, but I‘m so ready for fall!!

🦋 🌺🌷💐❤️

This butterfly is proof that even if you‘re a little broken you are still beautiful 😍 💛

kspenmoll Black swallowtail?! I never seen one! 4w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @kspenmoll they are beautiful 😍 4w
AnnCrystal 🤩🌸🦋🌸💝💝💝. 3w
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Thought of the day!!

#TOTD
#STLB

🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜

JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 4w
Eggs 🥰🥲😌 3w
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Great advice Emilia!! 🖤🖤🖤

I hope you all had a wonderful Monday 😍

Leftcoastzen Perfect! 4w
KadaGul 💙💯💛💯 4w
CarolynM 😆 4w
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Love this! 🤣❤️ 4w
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#BOTM is here!! Immortal Consequences is gorgeous 💗🖤

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“All cats are slightly magical, don‘t you know? It‘s why they‘re so smug all the time.” 💫 🪄 🐈‍⬛ 🐾

First day that it‘s been cool enough for porch reading 📖

#Adayinthelifeoftux
#CatsofLitsy 🐾

AnnCrystal
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💛🌺🌸🌼💐🌷

#TOTD thought of the day!

#STLB😊

Eggs #stlb 💜 4w
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“Welcome to real spy work. Mostly tedious, occasionally exhilarating.”

#Spy #charactercharm

One of my favorites!

Eggs Beautiful 😍 4w
Texreader Mine too!! 4w
AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 4w
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“Everyone deserves a home, Tao thought, patting Laohu‘s whiskery grey nose. And what was a home but somewhere you wouldn‘t have to feel quite so alone?”

Currently reading this one for a buddy read 💫

AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 4w
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I‘ve read some great books so far this year! The tagged is in 1st place right now! I can‘t imagine that changing, but we will see!

❤️📚📖 🌊

#bookbracket #ReadingBracket
#ReadingBracket2025

CSeydel Shaping up nicely! 4w
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This one is phenomenal on audio 🎧 I highly recommend it!!

Eggs Sounds so good! 4w
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Baby Teeth | Zoje Stage
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Super creepy!! Perfect for the upcoming season!

#Motherandchild
#charactercharm (not charming 😂 )

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Happy Sunday!! I hope you all are having a wonderful day! 💛💛💛

#DOTD is Hurricane party from kajun loaded tea 🍹

#TFTD Thought for the day… Rudeness is the weak person‘s imitation of strength… be kind 💛

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 I recognize that bookmark 😘💞🤗 4w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs yes mam 🧡🧡 4w
Read-n-Bloom Love the thought! 2w
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Yes!! Happy Saturday 😍

Read-n-Bloom Happy Saturday! 1mo
Eggs Delightful📚📚 4w
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This sounds good and the cover is gorgeous 💚💛

#Queen
#CharacterCharm

Cuilin Love that cover 😍 1mo
AnnCrystal That cover 🤩💝. 1mo
Eggs Gorgeous cover 💛🩷🩵 1mo
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July was a great reading month!!

July 2025

Slanting Towards the Sea ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finding Grace ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Don‘t Open Your Eyes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

The Missing Half ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pineapple Street ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Shattered Silence ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blood in the Water ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Beach House Rules ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Funny Story ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Broken Country ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

The Poppy Fields ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Compound ⭐️⭐️💫

8 audiobooks 🎧
4 physical books 📚

kspenmoll Great titles! So many I want to read. 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @kspenmoll so many great ones!! 1mo
uncommonlycozies Fantastic reading month! Thank you for sharing Slanting Towards the Sea because it is now on my radar 😊 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @uncommonlycozies thank you!! I hope you love it! 😍 1mo
Eggs Yay for Youuuuuu👏🏻🥳👏🏻 4w
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ALL THE FEELS! This book will live in my heart and mind for many years to come! This one resonates deeply with me. This masterpiece focuses on themes of love, loss, family, grief, infidelity, infertility, first love, unmet dreams, divorce, pain, regret, sorrow, and finding oneself. The setting of Croatia is absolutely stunning. I can visualize the beaches, sea, olive grove, and food. It‘s hard to believe that this is a debut novel. 👇🏻👇🏻

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I will read anything this author writes. I feel a huge book hangover coming… this is the perfect book to wrap up your summer reading! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1mo
kspenmoll Stacked! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @kspenmoll I hope you love it!! 🌊 ❤️ 1mo
AnnCrystal 🤩🏵️💝. 1mo
Eggs Stacking 🙌🏻 4w
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Starting this one on audio 🎧 I‘m not very familiar with this case.

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Happy Monday everyone 🦋 🌺

Texreader Oh that‘s gorgeous!!! 🦋♥️ 1mo
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩💝💝💝. (edited) 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Texreader thank you! I caught it at the perfect time 🦋 1mo
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wildwoodreads So pretty 😍 1mo
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Goodwill finds!! 💙💚🩵💛🧡💗

#TBR never ends!!

Erinreadsthebooks Nice!!! 1mo
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩📚🏵️💝. 1mo
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I‘m hoping to finish this one in the next couple of days! Basketball is interfering 😂

This book is beautifully written 🌊 💛

Mimi28 The Chicago Sky are at home against the Indiana Fever!! Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark are both injured though 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Mimi28 we watched! I hope both heal and are able to play soon 🏀 1mo
kspenmoll Women‘s basketball is fantastic! We follow the Connecticut Sun- 🌞 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @kspenmoll it is!! 🏀 🙌🏻 1mo
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He‘s not a kitten anymore! He‘s such a handsome boy 🖤 🐾 🤍 this is his favorite spot in the afternoons lying in the sun 🌞

#Kittens
#JulyJazz

Graywacke He‘s beautiful! 1mo
Cupcake12 Stunning 🐈‍⬛ 1mo
kspenmoll So beautiful! 1mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Cupcake12 thank you!! 😊 1mo
Mimi28 He‘s great! You‘re a great cat mom 😻😻🫶🏽🫶🏽 1mo
TNbookworm Oh he is so handsome 😻 1mo
Darklunarose He is very handsome. 1mo
iread2much He‘s a handsome boy! 1mo
AnnCrystal
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Mimi28 thank you Michelle 🥰 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Darklunarose thanks so much 😽 1mo
Eggs Great photo 🐈‍⬛❤️☀️ 1mo
Leslie_Ak2Oh Firstly, He‘s absolutely Handsome! Secondly, all dogs are forever puppies and all cats are forever kitties. Lastly, laying in the sun is how the fluffy kitten recharge after fighting off all the evil spirits and forcing them back into the other dimensions. 😂😂😂 Looks like your little warrior is very well taken care of. ❤️❤️❤️🐈‍⬛🐈😻 (edited) 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Leslie_Ak2Oh thank you!! He is definitely spoiled rotten! 🐾 🐈‍⬛ 🖤 3w
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Happy Friday!! #BookMail is the best mail!

Drink of the day is French Quarter Quencher 🥤

#DOTD from Kajun loaded tea 🫖

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One week until we enter August 2025! I hope you‘re ready!!

Please join us in our August photo challenge🧡 Post a book, song, play, poem, quote, film etc that matches the daily prompt. Use the hashtag and tag us. Everyone is welcome to play🥳

Thanks to everyone who played in July🙏🏻

#CharacterCharm

DrSabrinaMoldenReads I actually love participating in this but life gets in the way. Is it Ok to catch on up #JulyVibes I failed to post? 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @DrSabrinaMoldenReads yes! You can join anytime you like 🧡 1mo
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kspenmoll Thank you both for doing this every month- such fun! @Eggs 1mo
Eggs @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Play however/whenever you like 🩵💜💚 1mo
Eggs @kspenmoll It‘s our pleasure❣️Thank you for joining in K 💓 1mo
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Finding Grace | Loretta Rothschild
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“It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.”

#Grace
#JulyJazz

Definitely add this one to your tbr!!

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 1mo
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Eggs Planning on it 🙌🏻🙌🏻 1mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs do you have this one? 1mo
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I do! But I recently read A Home for the Holidays and The Stolen Queen from BOTM if you‘d like to read those! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs sure! I would love to! ❤️ 1mo
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Just finished Finding Grace and it was 5 ⭐️ This one is up next! The cover is gorgeous 🌊

Drinking of the day is Bananas on Bourbon Street from kajun loaded tea! 🥤 🍌

#DOTD

Happy Sunday 🌞

Amor4Libros I‘m so happy you‘re reading this! 😊❤️ 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Amor4Libros it‘s beautifully written! I‘m trying to finish it this weekend 🧡 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Amor4Libros this book… I am so sad that it‘s over! It will live in my heart for a long time!! 1mo
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Amor4Libros @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Right?!! I loved it so much! Happy to hear it had the same effect on you 🤗 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Amor4Libros yes!! I‘m at a loss for what to read next… 1mo
Amor4Libros @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I know the feeling! 1mo
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Happy Saturday!! I‘ll be finishing Finding Grace and I am SCREAMING at Tom!!!! 📢 😩

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Finding Grace | Loretta Rothschild
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This book is phenomenal 💛 I hated to have to stop reading to adult today!! I will read everything this author writes ✍️ 💗

Drinking of the day is gumbo ya-ya 🥤 from kajun loaded tea 🫖 🍋 🥥 🍍 🍊 🍒

#DOTD

Happy Thursday!!

Desha So glad to hear this since it was my #BOTM pick! 👍🏻♥️ 1mo
SilversReviews I keep seeing this book. Good to know it is great!! 1mo
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Finding Grace | Loretta Rothschild
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Whoa!!!!! 😳 that first chapter 😵🫣

My zinnias are showing out this year!! 🌸🌼🌷💐

My husband is asking me what‘s wrong so I told him and read him the last paragraph! 😵🫣

#BOTM

Texreader ♥️ 🌺 💐 2mo
AnnCrystal Love Zinnias 🤩💝. 1mo
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