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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Life
Parent
Slide
Happen
Slides
Friends
Gradually
Bigs
Shift
Moments
Discovered
Happens
Changes
Sometimes
Parents
Things
Pieces
Dong

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