But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was no…

David Levithan
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But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other. ✨ Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). Dash & Lily's Book of Dares, p.113, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other. ✨ Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). Dash & Lily's Book of Dares, p.113, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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