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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Life
Happen
Like
Waiting
Lena
State
Dread
Happiness
Passive
Happens
Relief
States
Spent
Much
Close
Something
Knew

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