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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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