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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Promise
Second
Didn
Much
Like
Impressions
Promises
Count
Impression

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