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John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
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Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!
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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper
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I think forever is an incorrect concept, I answered. He smirked. You're an incorrect concept. I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation.
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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
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That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?
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In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.
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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
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