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I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Collapse
Drag
Fall
Right
Ivy
Sidewalk
Exhaustion

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