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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.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Someone
Touch
Anew
Thing
Watching
Chorus
Like
Worse
Stages
Loss
Picking
Perhaps
Experiencing
Stage
Awful
Knowledge
Dare
Replay
Else
Sorry
Sung

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