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She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
Kissed
Beach
Sun
Goes
Girl
Keep
Wraps

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For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.
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And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
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grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping
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Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.
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Grief is forever. It doesn't go away it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
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That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
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Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
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... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?
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When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
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In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
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This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.
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Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.
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... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.
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The Color Of Extraordinary.
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Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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