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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Wonder
Whether
Polly
Lost
Dieting
Ever
Parts
Wanted
Beginning
Self
Lose
Right
Loses
Good
Pretty
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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