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But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.

Sara Gruen

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Sara Gruen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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Novelist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Alone
Eyeballs
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Fleeing
Kids
Borrowing
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Thing
Car
College
Minutes
Coop
Knew
Nineties

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