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Word: venessa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

Other upper-classmen waited to make that kind of sale with their minds newly stocked with wonderfully voweled names like Penelope, Delia, Venessa, Deborah, and Irene and pages of snap-shot-size visions of the prime side of a secondary aspect. Sometimes the upperclassmen were smiled at skittishly and sometimes they were given genteel laughs from deep in the throat; sometimes they heard the patently private, as when a girl with small shoulders and slight hips told a friend whose nails were dirty: "The only reason my family needs to love me is that I'm alive...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Saddest Confetti | 9/24/1966 | See Source »

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