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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Past
Change
Right
Sometimes
Even
Erase
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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