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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Evanston
Illinois
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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
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Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
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It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?
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Because the truth sometimes hurts, I said. Yeah, he said. So do lies, though.
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