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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.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Evanston
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Cramped
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Lizard
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