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You shоuld eat а waffle! Yоu саn't bе sad іf уоu eat а waffle!
Lauren Myracle
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Lauren Myracle
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 15
Comics Writer
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Brevard
North Carolina
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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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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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We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
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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 should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
Lauren Myracle
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.
Lauren Myracle
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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Curse false-hand-holding boys!
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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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Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
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I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
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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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I'm sorry, he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.
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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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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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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'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.
Lauren Myracle
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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But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.
Lauren Myracle
Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
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