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My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Promise
Broken
Bigs
Whole
Life
Improvisation
Rejection

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