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You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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California
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Mia

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My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
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There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.
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She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me.
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Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.
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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
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You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love
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But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
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In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
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Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.
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..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
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My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
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Anything can happen in one day.
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I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.
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We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.
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In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
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But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.
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It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
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It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
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There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
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