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I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Wondered
Yearning
Hated
Told
Felt
Didn
Thought
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Pang

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