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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Interpretation
Older
Age
People
Snotty
Sympathetic
Shy

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