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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard they only need to be speaking.
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