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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Unloved
Bothered
Promise
Nobody
World

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