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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Watching
Sitting
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Dock
Waiting
Docks
Come
Wooden
Nothing
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Way
Benches
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Boat
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