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

Sarah Addison Allen

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

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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.
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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.
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She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.
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That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.
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The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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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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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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It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
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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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She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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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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