“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

—  Ann Brashares, book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

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American children's writer 1967

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