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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Must
Really
Never
Sensed
Sadness
Knew

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