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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Wrote
Story
Girl
Stories
Firsts
Book
First
Published
Fourth

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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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