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  • I thought perhaps I should tell her about my breast before she discovered it in some grotesque way, and I suddenly become her old, deformed shriveled-up grandmother.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • I thought perhaps I should tell her about my breast before she discovered it in some grotesque way, and I suddenly become her old, deformed shriveled-up grandmother.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • Shot as two Russian-speaking men walk across a snowy countryside, fuzzy footage of what is claimed to be the shriveled-up corpse of a "dead alien" has become an Internet sensation.

    'Dead Alien' Hoax In Russia Goes Viral (VIDEO) 2011

  • “Mr. Abelard is a shriveled-up worm and should be treated as nothing less and nothing more,” she replied.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • “Mr. Abelard is a shriveled-up worm and should be treated as nothing less and nothing more,” she replied.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • If a shriveled-up male could preen, the foolish magician did just such.

    Blood Trinity Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010

  • If a shriveled-up male could preen, the foolish magician did just such.

    Blood Trinity Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010

  • “Mr. Abelard is a shriveled-up worm and should be treated as nothing less and nothing more,” she replied.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • “Mr. Abelard is a shriveled-up worm and should be treated as nothing less and nothing more,” she replied.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Any jury looking at her now would see a shriveled-up scrap of scarcely human flesh.

    Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

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