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Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

Jay Asher

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
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Arcadia
California
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