We're the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don't need to say so; it's just true. Sometimes it seems like we're so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones. We settle into types- Bridget the athlete, Lena the beauty, Tibby the rebel, and me, Carmen, the...what? The one with the bad temper. But the one who cares the most. The one who cares that we stick together.
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Ann Brashares was American children's writer. Ann Brashares is an American young adult novelist. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. Read more on Wikipedia →

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