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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
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What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
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I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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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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She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
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Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.
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In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
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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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I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.
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Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
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Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.
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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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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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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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