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Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

Meg Cabot

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Meg Cabot
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 1
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Patricia Cabot
Jenny Carroll
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I thought you'd like it, he said, seeming hurt. You look very pretty.
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