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Sade

American  
[sahd, sad, sad] / sɑd, sæd, sad /

noun

  1. Donatien Alphonse François Comte de Marquis de Sade, 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.


Sade British  
/ sɑːd /

noun

  1. Comte Donatien Alphonse François de (dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃s frɑ̃swa də), known as the Marquis de Sade. 1740–1814, French soldier and writer, whose exposition of sexual perversion gave rise to the term sadism

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Then there’s Sade’s “Young Lion,” a tolling piano ballad in which the famous soul singer asks her son to forgive her for not recognizing his gender identity earlier than she did.

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Mina and Sade are witnesses not only to each other but also to the conditions that formed and deformed their dreams.

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That’s why Sade is so clear about what her dreams are.

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Sade and Mina used to be inseparable but their lives have diverged and their memories don’t match up.

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Sade, “Young Lion” If you are a parent, you will cry.

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