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Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Time
Gets
Think
Easier
Thinking
Write
Another
Book
Writing
Going
Never

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