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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Enough
Starts
Feel
Seem
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Friends
Forget
Bigs
Stretch
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Stops
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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