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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fragile
Everyone
Beautiful
Everything

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