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Because the truth sometimes hurts, I said. Yeah, he said. So do lies, though.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Sometimes
Hurts
Yeah
Lies
Hurt
Though
Lying
Truth

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