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closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than This Lullaby. All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Even
Heard
Watched
Life
Eyes
Breaking
Rippled
Like
Eye
Closed
Shimmering
Water
Apart
Brushed
Words
Fingers
Lullaby
Music
Letters
Beads
Whole
Image
Gently
Many
Becoming
Listened

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