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Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.
Gabrielle Zevin Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.
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Gabrielle Zevin

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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