Ann BrasharesLena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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When Lena realized that she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen, she decided to make the best of what time she had left. She would make memories now. She would do things now. She would go out with friends now.
And she would be happy now.
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