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I'm sorry, he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.
Lauren Myracle
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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
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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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You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
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I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
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I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.
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And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.
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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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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
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We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
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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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Curse false-hand-holding boys!
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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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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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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 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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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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Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?
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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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You shоuld eat а waffle! Yоu саn't bе sad іf уоu eat а waffle!
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