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We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Lauren Myracle

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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
Comics Writer
Novelist
Writer
Brevard
North Carolina
Mistakes
Matters
Lessons
Mistake
Learn
Matter
Mess

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Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
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Three hot chicks for three hot chicks. THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!
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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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Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.
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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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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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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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You shоuld eat а waffle! Yоu саn't bе sad іf уоu eat а waffle!
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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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There's something strange about this big pink bunny.
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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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Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Curse false-hand-holding boys!
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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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