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You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
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And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
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It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
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What happened? During the kiss? No, with you and Caroline. Oh, he said. And then after a second, Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.
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