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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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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
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Give me time For you, always.
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I used to have only one name it used to mean something.
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