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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Doable
Forgiveness
Acceptance
Hard

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