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I've only been gone a week, I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

Meg Cabot

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Meg Cabot
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 1
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