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Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Think
Pond
Thinking
Ponds
Like
Rise
World
Looking
Seems
Nothing
Whole
Thing

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