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We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

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Ally Carter
Age: 51
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Sarah Leigh Fogleman
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