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This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. Pull open, Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, He never remembers. It's so weird.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Never
Arms
Glass
Entrance
Time
Open
Pull
Entrances
Called
Glasses
Bending
Eyes
Weird
Remembers
Eye
Suddenly
Rolled
Thought
Fronts
Interrupted
Leah
Remember
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Crash
Rubbing
Back
Looked
Adam
Maggie

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