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I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!
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Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.
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memories fall apart too.
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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
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