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Your mother won a special reward, she told me, because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Special
Head
Everyone
Mother
Applauded
Reward
Pictures
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