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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Destructive
Suffer
Allowed
Present
Suffering
Past
Feels
Fragile

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