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It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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