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Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Grows
Molecules
Alone
Beneath
Energy
Slowly
Even
Pushing
Something
Surface
Worked
Hare
Couldn
Hares
Grow
Bonding

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