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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
Avoid
Pain
Find
Trying
Things
Surround

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