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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
Girl
Stories
Firsts
Book
Published
First
Fourth
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Story

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the past only had whatever power you gave it life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.
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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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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.
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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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