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I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Heart
Stays
Years
Thirty
Way
Hearts
Guess
Along
Broken
Friends
Without

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