They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absor…

Ann Brashares
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing. ✨ Ann Brashares (2011). Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel, p.58, Random House
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