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It was love because it was worth it.

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Jay Asher
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 30
Novelist
Writer
Arcadia
California
Worth
Love

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Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.
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And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.
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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
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But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.
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After all, how often do we get a second chance?
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The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.
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But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.
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This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
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That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.
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I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.
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Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know
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I left. When I should have stayed.
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That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.
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Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.
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I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
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Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.
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And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.
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