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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
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Port Chester
New York
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Think
Thinking
Worse
Promise
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