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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.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Endless
Ocean
Silence
Rest
Seen
Imagine
Uninhabitable
Space
Island
World
Islands

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