I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d thin…

Sarah Dessen
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I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend’s lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass’s was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2004). Dreamland, p.185, Penguin
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