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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.

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Exist
Somebody
Believe

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