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All grown up tells the story of a single, childless, thirtynineyearold woman named andrea. Even though those danielle steelesque books are a fun guilty pleasure, there are other timeless. Wards writing throbs with life, grief, and love, and her national book awardwinning book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it. The girl has been secondbest to kei takishima her whole life after the boy beat her in a wrestling.
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