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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Blue
Pair
Color
Pairs
Thought
Worn
Wells
Pants
Well
Soft
Love
Realized
Essential
Essentials
Changeable

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