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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.
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It must be some book, she said as she knelt down next to the bed...Did that boy give it to you? She asked out of nowhere. By 'it' do you mean herpes? You are too much, Mom said, The book, Hazel. I mean the book.
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Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?
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For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
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But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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Headline? he asked. 'Swing Set Needs Home,' I said. 'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,' he said. 'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,' I said.
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You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
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Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
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I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
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