Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

 

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.
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"Flor de Obsess?o: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" - Published by Companhia das Letras, 1992 ISBN 8571646678, 9788571646674

 

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