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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
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The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.
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Tell freedom I said hello.
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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, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
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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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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
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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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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
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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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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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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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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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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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