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It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Children
Heard
Realized
Make
Child
Memory
Love
Less
Older
Like
Words
Mines
Song
Mine
Didn
Songs
Woven
Stories
Already
Tragic
Part
Memories
Familiar

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