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There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Girls
Arbitrary
Becoming
Grade
Longer
Island
Waiting
Hoping
Forget
Grades
Girl
Islands
Made
Performing
Nots
Something
Rules
Shalt

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