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

Sarah Dessen

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

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