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As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Way
Stretching
Good
Distant
Things
Hopeful
Couldn
Dream
Thought
Remember
Rolled
Back
Unreal

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