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You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
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This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
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You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
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