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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Thing
Hardest
Lonely
Perhaps
Happy

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