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I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check. -Cora

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Seriously
Police
Doubt
Underwear
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Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
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It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.
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During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.
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It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
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I don't lie. You don't lie, I repeated. That's what I said. Ever. Nope. Sure you don't, I thought.
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You just looked... she said, searching for the word, taken, you know? Plus you hardly reacted to Wes. I mean, you did alittle, but nothing like most girls. It was a little swoon. Not a sa-woon, you know? I said, Sa-woon? Oh, come on, she said shaking her head. Even a blind girl could tell he is amazing.
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He wasn't what I'd thought he was maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
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