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Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.
Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 23
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Cooperstown
New York
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Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur we choose to love we do not choose to cease loving.
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Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.
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Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my wallowing moments I can feel as if I'm already on the outside of society, peering wistfully in.
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