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I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

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Cecily von Ziegesar
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 27
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Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar
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the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
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Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
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But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.
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I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
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