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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Maybe
Hope
Persons
Person
Thing
Love
Dangerous

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