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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Anything
Trying
Ease
Something
Exactly
Lose
Loses
Somebody
Pain
Running

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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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