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Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
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