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If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Accepting
Happened
Didn
Part
Everything
Never
Dreamland
Would
Followed
Love
Letting

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