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What are you reading? Owen asks. Charlotte's Web, Liz says. It's really sad. One of the main characters just died. You ought to read the book from end to beginning, Owen jokes. That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.
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Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?
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Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
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I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
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The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.
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It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
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