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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Everyone
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Crisis
Identity

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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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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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the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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