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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Something
Fight
Fighting
Wrong
Felt
Without
Giving

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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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