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Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Pretty
Doesn
Someone
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Decent

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