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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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Tell freedom I said hello.
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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.
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Good night, sweetheart, he says. Good bye, sweetheart, I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
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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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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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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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Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.
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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.
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There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.
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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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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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Give me time For you, always.
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I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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