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I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Sorry
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Words
Someone
Going
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