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Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Knew
Maybe
Times
Best
Come
Never

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