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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Damned
Leaving
Easy
Else
Everything
Hard

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