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—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
Alexandra Bracken
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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
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But hey, what's life without a little adversity? That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
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He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
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