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What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.
Rainbow Rowell
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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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