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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Doesn
Happens
Past
Blotting
Trying
Overtakes
Catch
Future
Inspirational
Running

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