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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had, or maybe still had but that they didn't agree with.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Thought
Beyond
Stills
Trust
Still
Knew
Anything
Heard
Rumors
Wanted
Maybe
Rumor
Real
Stuff
Despite
People
Didn
Relationships
Past
Agree

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