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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.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Life
Seem
Neatly
Like
Longer
Nagging
Feeling
Awaken
Sense
Laid
Left
Desperate
Feelings
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Dream
Clothes
Seems
Marriage
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