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It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Insightful
Rest
Nice
Hard
Mean
World

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