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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Ideas
Kind
Way
Love
World
Fictional
Worlds
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