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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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