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It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Annabel
Consequences
Consequence
Blame
Choice
Choices
Wrong
Make

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