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You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Anyone
Ends
Hard
Much
Way
Love
Hurts
Lifetime
Hurt

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