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He wasn't what I'd thought he was maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Maybe
Thought
Never
Wasn
Either

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