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She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.

She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.

Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern

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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Approximate author period: c. 1983 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Jennifer Lynn Barnes: documented birth year 1983; activity date not established. Wikidata Q105778378, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105778378 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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