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Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Worry
Place
Past
World
Teen
Worrying

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I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
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I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.
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If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
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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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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
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And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.
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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
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Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
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