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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Brought
Couldn
Present
Past
Change
Matter
Sealed

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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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