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It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Thinking
Subscribing
Fully
Anymore
Negative
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