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If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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