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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.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Ways
Dock
Waiting
Docks
Come
Wooden
Nothing
Bench
Way
Benches
Always
Boat
Watching
Sitting

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