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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Guy
Dress
Fall
Dresses
Feelings
Weird
Doesn
Wear
Seems
Meet
Ever
Return
Love
Seem
Mutation
Feeling
Genetic

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