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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Voice
Soft
Like
Everyone
Ghost
Night
Rise
Else
Finally
Everything
Quiet
Haunting
Late
Ghosts
Mind
Sleep
Filling
Always
Came
Voices
Would

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