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In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Maybe
Though
Place
Ends
Matter
Matters
Reach

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