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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Wasn
Looking
Sure
History
Keep
Past
Burden
Back
Heavy
Something
Tired

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