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If you were dead, Owen told her, you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Problem
Owen
Wearing
Bigger
Problems
Dead
Told

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