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call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Call
Within
Reason
Without
Salad
Chicken
Chickens
Crazy

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