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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Made
Bothered
Realized
Kept
Loving
Deeper
Blindly
Littles
Intolerable
Little
Deserved
Thing
Irritating

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