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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Running
Anything
Trying
Ease
Something
Exactly
Lose
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Somebody
Pain
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