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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Friend
Maybe
Asks
Heartthrob
Didn
Geek
Matter
Possibly
World
Famous
Painful
Dying

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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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