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Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Made
Letting
Things
Putting
Like
Distance
People
Meant
Friend
Hurt
Happy
Sometimes

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