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The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.
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But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
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Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.
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I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for it’s Lulu too.
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I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
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You just work through it. You just hang in there.
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So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
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I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.
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And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
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Really? Was that how you quit me?
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Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?
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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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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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It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
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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
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