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Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Never
Everyday
Dreams
Ones
Simple
Dream
Everything
Something
Matched
Things
Plain

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