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to buy things I didn't need in a desperate

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of a Birkin bag, focusing on

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nd the clerk a c

mach d

knew the matte finis

unt. I had given it to Liam six months

gotten to

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ls clicked against the ma

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just as the clerk was

to

up, startled. S

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doing here?"

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aid to the clerk, my

d to snatc

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d at me. The color drained from his face. He recognized

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he clerk

the manager and tell him you

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lunged acros

locking her path w

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ing my assets