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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
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Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
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I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
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Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
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She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.
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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.
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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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We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.
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I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?
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Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
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I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.
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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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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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It's best to let her go, he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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Give me time For you, always.
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