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li·an·a

 (lē-ä′nə, -ăn′ə) also li·ane (-än′, -ăn′)
n.
Any of various climbing, woody, usually tropical vines.
[Alteration of French liane, probably from lier, to bind, from Old French; see liable.]
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TWENTY years ago, Paul Stowers brutally murdered Liane Singleton before dumping her mutilated body in bin bags.
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A life less ordinary UGLY ME: MY LIFE WITH BODY DYSMORPHIA BBC1, 11.45pm DISGUSTED by her own reflection in the mirror, 29-year-old Liane is crippled by a condition that causes her to believe she is horrifically ugly.
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Liane Carberry is sick with worry as she has been driving for three years with the wrong registration on her car.
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On May 3 1998, Liane Singleton, 18, was strangled, punched and stamped at a flat in Oldham on by Paul Stowers - before he dismembered her body with a butcher's knife.
Parents of teenager brutally murdered and dismembered 20 years ago today receive letter saying killer's up for parole on anniversary; Paul Stowers was handed a life sentence for the brutal killing of Liane Singleton in Oldham on May 3 1998 - whose body he cut up with a butcher's knife

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