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“And when the other lads found out what came over me at the full moon...If you were me you’d be a bit secretive too, I’d expect.”

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Despite leading this high-profile enterprise, Qian was notoriously secretive, known only as Huahua or Little Flower to her clients, and communicating with them largely through the poems she posted on her blog.

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For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

“By choice, she did not emphasize her feminine qualities,” he wrote, adding that she was secretive and quarrelsome.

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Ike defended the U-2 flights as necessary when dealing with a secretive and unpredictable adversary.

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