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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Wanted
Look
Looks
Time
Arch
Life
Arches
Marching
Along
Space

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