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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Much
Future
Things
Understand
Never
Past
Time
Stills
Linked
World
Together
Affect
Still
Passed
Live
Pay
Matter
Attention

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