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You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Faucet
Dry
Drop
Source
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