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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
World
Seemed
Inside
Even
Thing
Going
Good
Time
Like
Stopped

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