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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Surround
Avoid
Pain
Find
Trying
Things

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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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