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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
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Pictured
Outline
Completed
Outlines
Inside
Book
Always
Colouring

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