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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
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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 never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
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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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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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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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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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Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
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I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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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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What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
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I miss something I never even had.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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It's never right to give up on someone.
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other. Pg 225
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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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I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?
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