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hey rebels guess what? we're
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launching a brand new book about young, people
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all over the world who are changing
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scheduled this month to celebrate two episodes
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to pre-order okay? on
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with the
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once upon a time there was was
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who dreams and bright colors her
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name isabella
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capella was born
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in nineteen eighty six and guatemala
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city of what i'm not sure
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, or home surrounded by the us
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have a city streets sort of music and
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arts arts a skylight
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and majestic mountains of mountains
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isabella was the youngest of the children
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who is super else really is always on
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the move to the singing
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playing tennis and , set
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list of all isabella love
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the motor show is over last is what a person's
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isabella was dry and design he dresses
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and says a jackets since
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, randall randall shit
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lines of to make a little fashioned little said
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as he says as hell of a false and
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have them into different shaped measuring
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and pinning them hurdles making
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something that lines and full skirts
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capella found
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inspiration all around her favorite
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, when the peace
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and yellows of a new and then
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then amazed that a magnificent is
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all birds sinful and
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the lucy miss a thing is
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nick
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isn't a moment all the hughes and patterns
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and my favorite him indigenous
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women funded a said the city
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was established by hand and
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each community a watermelon had
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different patterns and
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there were important to them
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some women have a said their
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own pot is indicted the season
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four
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in where you flowers and four
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he goes a snakes
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shrimps and zigzags what
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products and pompoms
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it are fascinated isabella she
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, love the full fabrics
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it as the women who made them told
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amazing stories with the animals
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and plants sewn into the cloth
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his image they created represented
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ideas of love nature has
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series holding
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me fab rest are sick or the isabella he
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felt like these colors and patterns
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the the scenes
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this wrong bright red
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waiting of those past and can missing
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her to are present and
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future
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if you prepare to that they found hi my school
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isabella teachers as sure the
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right unless projects to
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laura what her hopes and dreams were
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or her lies
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you know if it doesn't matter projects with a full
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grin on her face you
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knew are calling he's
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going to become a great session as entered celebrating
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the sensor this color oh have
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people ever homeland and bring new
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ideas silliness
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obama doesn't even have
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you
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everything so hard in school
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and in college isabella ,
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of flights to us as him design school in one of
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mala mala was only one
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university as specialize in fashion
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and isabel
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which is herman get in
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right
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what happened
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i won't be able to handle it to this is
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downs this
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every
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isabella was born with down syndrome
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which is a genetic condition with
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as with extra copy of chromosomes when
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one in your dna
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if it is this your code potential
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but he had throw in function some
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people with down syndrome have a lot of
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mental or physical challenges
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devoted hockey or troubled developing
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muscle tone never
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felt like them syndrome other back
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from facilities
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the green zone in
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fact this ,
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firefighters were card speak
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mind and see if
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the every person is beautiful
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and unique
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isabella of in that letter from the university
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specializing investing design
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and so that he was rejected but
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once you've been punched in the guts he
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felt like people over judging her without
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knowing where she was capable of
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that hurts
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a lot
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he also knew when the fisher
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you know what
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these are family
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i'm not as know
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into a yeah
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israel is a side issue is going
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to the some fashion designer her life
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he said it's easy to a silly academy
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and hover heart and soul into
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learning how to separate ways and
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stitch seems ten
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inches long
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i want to same it
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emphasis outlets are you
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nectar he taught him yes
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rudolph readers
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are part of the moment
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in
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the tradition
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mean me very small
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that those
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are no prisoner
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murray into the dot at night i'm
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worried at making his
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i'm worried how
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a me i'm worried
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and have access to gain those i miss
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it
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the children that the dove under the
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pillows the , can
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take away the worries and of
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the children have sweets she's asleep
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the develop
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the right off she didn't
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and it may close the says if
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he wanted
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to nicholas s people
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well we created a nice place where idols
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as , lens and fund has an
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issue with
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and picked out of our favorite
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vitamin
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the measures are beautiful avoided
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home and he's alone
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sensors daily necessities
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and says
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they look like a bona
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fide is full of rubber girls
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if
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another was thrilled with our free issues
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and soon as easily
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the doors
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the defending for people
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there's one thing that kept holding back
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something even realize sizemore it'll
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suit for for her and
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, understand why are always
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close of text
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the one
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so yeah some other ah
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isabella
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the matter is another slice and
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her mom had been designing clothes to are
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really taking , close
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the isabella weren't aware and
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teasing them teasing such isabella
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thought he was on the late
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and you see
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people who are born with down syndrome
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and often have different
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how did you use some
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a smaller a lighter than average
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the very thin
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well he loves her mom him a
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chance for added less my
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needed isabella
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really wanna make wanna whole mine
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a slows as sit people that
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sounds right from the start
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the wanted everyone to seal as thrice
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and fabulous as seated
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so
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isabella went market again unless
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it all the here
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me guatemalan fabric she's
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, to the my mom is about
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when his picture upon immense
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and box as many different pieces
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as you can carry carry
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like every like every
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swirl of color as
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part of one mullahs history he
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can't wait to leave them all out and
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piece together piece together the so the
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soy ever people
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i'm an age where he is so
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the skirts
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he made our delete some her hair especially
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handbags or miss status
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this will fall upon pounds
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each and zippers
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there were meant to live like the bundles the
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indigenous women to the other his sometimes
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not easy to carry a lot of were
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under your head says a common
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practice indigenous women indigenous one imola
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sure him
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the into a small islam and are
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this is a big heart of isabella designs
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in
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a serene mct a
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woman
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the were
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specially in a beloved homeland
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and he doesn't system
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it never know as as
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as as as himself at while most
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cities museum and business success
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no or
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there is sharon says
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freiheit in the hannah
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this is it was so far
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as so on various
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isabella was thrilled to bring him a saturday
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that to display of the
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him people from all
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over came to ask you the whole process and
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, and pretty soon
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she's so that of everything she brought
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you're gonna have cited that people like
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her ideas and
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the the he decided
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to come up with her own brand
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your college down to see of as down
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because she was proud to be living be living
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with us syndrome and see a bell
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the recognize her gear grandmother was
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, a brilliant session dissenters him and
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encourage isabella every sip of the
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way
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later that same year isabella
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to the stage the to
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the integrating his ex why
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couldn't a bright lights like the others
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or am
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hearing the a boss phil home
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fires in a this is
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a fetus welcome
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to the london fashion
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this is gonna was overjoyed and his
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inability to invite a citizen
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works here
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literally as in some from who's
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, only one of the youngest designers
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as this isn't isn't under
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the first person from guatemala and
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the first person with as syndrome ever present
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on the so that is that
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isabella
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calling from his again
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he was am i correct for afghan government
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a and is this your creations
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are , other pants insensitive
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and six seven
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and
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very
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he offered a
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isabella him he
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know and
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, to a certain
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that out in a one of the time brilliant
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blue dress is an embroidered
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neckline and lung blue friends
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isabella set forward her
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i thought old inspired
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not only her own
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straight in beauty
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the rape and beauty of other women
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who made the same possible
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like her money every
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day made sure she felt love
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and in howard
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the her grandmother has
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earned his mother's guess a citizen
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at the women of water mark fletcher
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cotton guys are fabrice
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stitch stories of love and nature okay
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turn those on their head there
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isn't a walk down the runway that days
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as , brave rebel the me
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local a whole say her
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on enshrining of
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those is a never safe
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that day isabella supplies
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has arisen fighter the
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was named on of the most inspirational
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women in the world he
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has been invited all of the glove to sure
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this is losing and she can pass
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the signing power and plus ability
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is reversed how
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civil know how social justice sometimes
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in school and how it only
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and knees were most determined to succeed
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on her own terms this
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is our families in a future for
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all people are included all
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people to the reform
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as she said
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i love life my
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life and i love has down
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syndrome
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i'm a lucky woman doing what i love
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learning new things
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the flowers in her hair to
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, southern her heart's isabella
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said screw treble girl
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amazing story am
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i right i love the way anyone can
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become a change maker as long as she listens
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to her heart and there's herself to be brave
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