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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Hope
Keep
Thing
Illustrious
Extinct
Risky
Alive
Gone

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