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Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

Gayle Forman

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