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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Besieged
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