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I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Really
Short
Tailors
Time
Loved
Weekly
Like
Perfect
Blog
Character
Entry
Feel
Consuming
Spurts
Feels
Twitter
Entries
Made
Daily
Tailor
Long
Characters
Thrice

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