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When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
World
Walking
Minutes
Stills
Marshall
Still
Kissed
Heart
Stopped
Every
Remembered
Time
Later
Like
Air

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