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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Like
Comfort
World
Goes
Ready
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Least
Worlds
Almost
Sentences
Four
Older
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Long
Tried

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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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