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Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Fully
Understand
Hard
Believe
Life

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