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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Doubted
Whose
Parents
Wasn
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Friends
Love

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