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Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Half
Farther
Away
Sleeping
Didn
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Everything
Wake
Life
Walking
Arms
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Dreamland
Sleep
Preferable

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