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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Certain
Regain
Made
Possessed
Qualities
Caring
Couldn
Impossible
Quality
Retrieve
Gone
Carelessly

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