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I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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