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It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
Pure
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Unsettling
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Someone
Stark
Truth
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Always
Ugly

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