Sarah Dessen - Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remem

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

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Dessen, Sarah. Lock and Key. Viking, 2008.

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