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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Way
Persons
Would
Back
Bridget
Person
Churning
Without
Agony
Right
Stomach
Feel
Law
Feels
Another
Made
Someone

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