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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Looks
Planned
Feel
Appropriate
Feels
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None
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