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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
Comics Writer
Novelist
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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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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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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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You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
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Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
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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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Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
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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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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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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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Curse false-hand-holding boys!
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Yes, that man acted ugly, she told us in plain English. But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.
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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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We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
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Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.
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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 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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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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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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Three hot chicks for three hot chicks. THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!
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