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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
Lauren Myracle
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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
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North Carolina
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I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.
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You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
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I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.
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Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.
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There's something strange about this big pink bunny.
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Three hot chicks for three hot chicks. THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!
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I'm sorry, he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.
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It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.
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We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.
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And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, Oh, thank God all that's over.
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I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.
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Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
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I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part.
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I was just teasing, I say. I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.
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I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
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One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life
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Is he a sophomore? Lydia says. Please tell me he's in our grade. I don't know, I say. But weren't you there when he came to the office? Peyton says. The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.
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If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.
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And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in bozes And they come out all the same. - Malvina Reynolds
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Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.
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