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Lit As A Feather

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May 10, 2016

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A self-dubbed pyro, 10 year old Jazz loved playing with fire and would do so at any chance she could get. Then one day a game of ‘light as a feather, stiff as a board’ became way.too.lit.

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May 10, 2016

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