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Susanna Kaysen Quotes: Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
         

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.


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