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These were they that gave me the name of Moll Flanders; for it was no more of affinity with my real name or with any of the name I had ever gone by, than black is of kin to white, except that once, as before, I called myself Mrs. Flanders; when I sheltered myself in the Mint; but that these rogues never knew, nor could I ever learn how they came to give me the name, or what the occasion of it was.

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I love finding, wearing, and more recently, photographing and blogging a different, colorful, crazy outfit for every single occasion.

It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.

On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.

And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.

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