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The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Still
Rooms
Stared
Littles
Already
Hot
Back
Probably
Anyway
Little
Small
Manage
Cramped
Come
Felt
Seemed
Lizard
Enough
Didn
Sorry
Lizards
World
Place
Taking
Defenseless
Stills
Room
Screwed

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