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Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Anything
Ethan
Different
Cameron
Like
Crush
Possibly
Romance
Meant
Couldn
Understand

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