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In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Choose
Keep
Ends
Always

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