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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Always
Remembers
Forget
Past
Remember
Even

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