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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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Sarah Addison Allen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 30
Author
Asheville
North Carolina
Katie Gallagher
Childhood
Inside
Single
Memories
Forever
Bubble
Wish
Bubbles
Live
Blow
Take
Memory

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