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You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Everyone
Dream
Nothing
Trying
Pissing
People
Accomplishing
Dreams
Please
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