“At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.”

— Anaïs Nin, book A Spy in the House of Love

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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