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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Part
Survival
Together
Shapes
Absorption
Nothing
Gave
Emergencies
Self
Took
Strangers
Take
Story
Plot
Made
Death
Relate
Way
Left
Stranger
Stories
Shape

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