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I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
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Chapel
Illinois
Hill
Hills
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