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I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Dies
Lives
Nothing
Multiply
Children
Roses
Long
Flies
World
Rose
Daughter
Loved

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