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With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Gone
Another
Didn
Someone
Minute
Thinking
Mom
Neither
Waste
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