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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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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Finally
Happy
Future
Together
Believe
Ending

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