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Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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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.
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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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You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.
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Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
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Give me time For you, always.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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I used to have only one name it used to mean something.
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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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Tell freedom I said hello.
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Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.
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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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