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Tell freedom I said hello.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Hello
Freedom
Tell

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and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.
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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
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