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A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Everything
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Beginnings
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