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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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Connecticut
United States
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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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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
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and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.
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It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls. There are always walls. I say.
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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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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
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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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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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I never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
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There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
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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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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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I always knew I was an excellent liar I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.
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I miss something I never even had.
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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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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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Give me time For you, always.
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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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