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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Stupid
Learning
Maybe
Keep
Thing
Really
Things
Destined
Never
Single

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