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I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

Rachel Cohn

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Believe
Exist
Somebody

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