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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Doesn
Seems
Remember
Fairs
Fair
Dying
Seem
Everyone
Born

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