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If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
World
Kissed
Stopped
Kissing
Boys
Nothing
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