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You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

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Candace Bushnell
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
Columnist
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Carrie Bradshaw
Summer
Choose
Guy
Lasts
Last
Fall
Ends
Love
Secretly

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