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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Joy
Loved
Pain
Else
Someone
Feel
Feels
Powerfully
Really
Friendship

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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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