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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Longer
Shot
Taken
Suddenly
Shots
Anymore
Distance
Road
Possibility
Represented
Couldn
Someday

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