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Things will get worse before they get better.
Lauren DeStefano
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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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I lost everyone I loved, I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, The day I met you.
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Give me time For you, always.
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I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
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Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
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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 was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
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He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.
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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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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
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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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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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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 never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
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In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
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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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You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
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