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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Things
Books
Pulling
Love
Funny
Thin
Like
Remember
Foot
Slicing
Persons
Admire
Splinter
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Library
Veritable
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Return
Cucumbers
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