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“I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.” quote by Sarah Addison Allen — Download Open image

“I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.”

Sarah Addison Allen

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