"I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
~ Sarah Dessen ~












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