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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
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I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
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Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
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There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
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You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
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To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
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We writers are resilient souls.
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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
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I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.
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I used to have only one name it used to mean something.
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She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.
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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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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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It's best to let her go, he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.
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I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?
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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.
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