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It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Greatest
Fighting
Things
Earning
Worth
Fight
Struggle

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