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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

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Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
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Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
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Experience
Everything
Life

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But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead be grateful and eat it anyway.
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Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
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Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.
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He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
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How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
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It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.
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When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
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Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.
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Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
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Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
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But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
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But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.
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I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
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