Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumpin…

Sarah Dessen
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Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and forth-and-back. I realized that if I tried to focus on it too much, I got overwhelmed. So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2009). Along for the Ride, p.227, Penguin
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