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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Remembering
Remembered
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Remember
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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