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n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel like a wound in a bad place, prone to be bumped on corners or edges. Never able to heal.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Thinking
Place
Wound
Like
Two
Wounds
Able
Corners
Feel
Edges
Feels
Heal
Years
Dark
Bumped
Never
Everyone
Blurred
Think
Felt
Prone

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