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I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

Kristin Hannah

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Never
Loving
Embarrass
Time
Stop
Yell
Love
Born
Screw
Ever
Cracked
Might
Screws
Firsts
Fell
First
Bones
Hard
Held

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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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