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I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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