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Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Else
Camera
Everything
Cameras
Life
Invisible
Like
Losing
Crawled
Behinds
Lens
Behind
Lifted
Eye
Lenses
Away
Fell

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