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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Hadn
Summer
Learned
Also
Need
Needs
Love

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