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We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.

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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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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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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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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
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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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There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
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Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
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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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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
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People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
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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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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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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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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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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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When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.
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Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
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Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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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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