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Lauren DeStefano
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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
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I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
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It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls. There are always walls. I say.
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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
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We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
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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.
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Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.
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You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.
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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
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I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.
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You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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