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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Happened
Lena
Even
Dreaded
Long
Mourn
Always
Suspect
Things
Described
Suspects
Carmen
Separation
Mourned
Beginning
Permitting

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