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The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Comets
Solace
Girls
Language
Girl
Ends
Become

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