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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.

Lauren Myracle

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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
Comics Writer
Novelist
Writer
Brevard
North Carolina
Attention
Kids
Give
Giving
Tended
People
Starving
Inclination
Unfair
Annoying

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