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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Keeps
Maybe
Hope
Together
Thing

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