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Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Needed
Alone
Maybe
Change
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Gotten

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