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I had to do something, she said. I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

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Julia Quinn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 12
Author
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Evergreen State
Julie Cotler
Julie Pottinger
Something
Life
Wait
Couldn
Longer
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