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To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

Sarah Addison Allen

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Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
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Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
Time
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Carolina
Think
Waiting
Searching
Thinking
Happiness
North
Left
Field
Away
Spent
Back
Regret
Find
Fields
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Football

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