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Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Sighed
Standards
Ordinary
Please
Boys
High
Girl

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