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When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you
Gail Carson Levine
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Gail Carson Levine
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 17
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