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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
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
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Mine
Still
Begin
Better
Lived
Newly
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Middle
Reborn
Waiting
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Sounds
Lives
Mines
Around
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