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It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Choices
Chance
Another
Thing
Make
Never
Choice

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Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.
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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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