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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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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 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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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
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There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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I always knew I was an excellent liar I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.
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I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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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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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 start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
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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 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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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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