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It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
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There are more of us than you think.
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And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.
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Music, I think, he makes me feel like music
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