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I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
Together
Stayed
Right
Existed
Really
Closer
World
Kept
Constant
Coming
Times
Thought
Retreating

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