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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Tree
Dies
Back
Matter
Really
Never
Willow
Cutting

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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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