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It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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LA
California
Twenties
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Periods
Four
Hours
Adam
Twenty

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Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?
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So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.
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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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I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for it’s Lulu too.
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Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
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Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth
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And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
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I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.
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I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.
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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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By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.
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