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Women destroy me. I allow them to.


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This page presents the quote "Women destroy me. I allow them to.". Author of this quote is Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina. This quote is about infidelity, cheating, male-and-female-relationships, weakness, machismo, masculinity,.