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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Looking
Though
Funny
Beautiful
Like
People
Forgot
Mostly
Particularly

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