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I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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LA
California
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Really
Mia
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Dissipated
Thinking
Faced
Anger
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