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I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Think
Completely
Owen
Thinking
Listen
Drowned
Didn
Phoenix
Music
Blur
Everything
Block
Long
Remembered
Something
Saved
Things
Telling

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