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You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
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Acting
Chance
Kids
Around
Children
Always
Unless
Like
Parents

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