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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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LA
California
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Mia
Wishes
Plans
Control
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Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
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He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. I'll keep you up here. He taps his temple. Where you can't get lost.
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Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.
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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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One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.
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And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
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She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
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Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush
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A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
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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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Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
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Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
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Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes.
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It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
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But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
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It's nice, this. The canal. He looks at me. You. I'll bet you say that to all the canals.
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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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Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?
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A thousand suns rise from my chest.
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