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See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
Silence
Wasn
Either
Freaking
Sure
Immediate
Loud
Deeply
Seemed
Deep

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