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Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

Kristin Hannah

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Like
Girls
Julia
Broken
Bone
Hurt
Ache
Understand
Hurts
Girl
Weather
True
Popular
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Bones
Right
Lifetime
Ellie

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