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It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.
Sarah Dessen
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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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