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When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Sara Gruen

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Sara Gruen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Vancouver
British Columbia
Elephants
Meant
Fate
Two
Together
People

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