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Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

Anne Frank

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Anne Frank
Age: 15 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 12
Died: 1945
Died: March 31
Author
Diarist
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Frankfurt/Main
Anna Frank
Anne Maries Frank
Ana Frank
Anne M. Frank
Annelies Marie Frank
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