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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Face
Parking
Faces
July
Wish
Fourth
Firsts
Broke
First
Held
Firecrackers
Hard
Rules
Oleanders
Never
Understood
Firecracker
Like
Broken
Exploding

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