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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: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Dangerous
Maybe
Hope
Persons
Person
Thing
Love

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I miss something I never even had.
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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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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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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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