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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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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.
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My brain said no. But my heart!
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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
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Oh, says Owen, but I would have, you know. I know you would have, says Liz, and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know. 'Lass'? Where did that come from? I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.
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