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And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Didn
Back
Bye
Look
Watched
Looks
Scared
Even
Walk
Good
Walks
Easy
Left

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