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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
Dirty
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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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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
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Someday I'll tell you all of it, I say. I'd like that, he says. No, I say. I promise you won't.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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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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I lost everyone I loved, I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, The day I met you.
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The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.
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I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
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There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.
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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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Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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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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We writers are resilient souls.
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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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