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You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern

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Sarah Dessen
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1970; activity date not established; Wikidata Q532336, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532336 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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