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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.

Lauren Myracle

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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
Comics Writer
Novelist
Writer
Brevard
North Carolina
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Giving
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Ems
Boys
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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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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 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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Three hot chicks for three hot chicks. THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!
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Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.
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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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I'm sorry, he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.
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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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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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We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
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You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
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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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I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
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Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.
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You shоuld eat а waffle! Yоu саn't bе sad іf уоu eat а waffle!
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But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.
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Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
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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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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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Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
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