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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
Author
Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
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Experience
Everything
Life

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Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
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Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.
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Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
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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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That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
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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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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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