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I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Somewhere
Sight
Else
Wanted
Would
Sobbing
Someplace
Ties

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